the name crohn's disease came from burrill bernard crohn.
the name crohn's disease came from burrill bernard crohn.
where did the name crohn's disease come from?
burrill bernard crohn
working with colleagues at mount sinai hospital, crohn identified fourteen patients whose symptoms and intestinal abnormalities discovered at surgery, while consistent with each other, did not fit any previously identified disease. crohn, along with leon ginzburg and gordon oppenheimer, prepared the classic paper describing this new condition. this paper was read at a professional meeting in may 1932 and published in the "journal of the american medical association" in october 1932. the title of the published paper was "regional ileitis: a pathologic and clinical entity". crohn's work helped correct the thinking that the ailment was actually a form of tuberculosis rather than an inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract. crohn's work built on the work of dr. kennedy dalziel of glasgow into regional enteritis twenty years earlier. crohn always preferred the medically descriptive terms "regional ileitis" and "regional enteritis" to "crohn's disease", but he was not able to prevent the appropriation of his name for the disease.
burrill bernard crohn
the crohn's disease activity index or cdai is a research tool used to quantify the symptoms of patients with crohn's disease. this is of useful importance in research studies done on medications used to treat crohn's disease; most major studies on newer medications use the cdai in order to define response or remission of disease. as crohn's disease is a disease with a variety of symptoms that affect quality of life, the quantification of symptoms may be of secondary importance to a quantitative assessment of the effect on quality of life. this has been addressed by the inflammatory bowel disease questionnaire (ibdq) and other indices of quality of life for patients with crohn's disease.
crohn's disease activity index