The Montreal classification of inflammatory bowel disease: controversies, consensus, and implications (original) (raw)
The Montreal classification of inflammatory bowel disease: controversies, consensus, and implications
- J Satsangi1,
- M S Silverberg2,
- S Vermeire3,
- J-F Colombel4
- 1Gastrointestinal Unit, Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- 2Mount Sinai Hospital Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- 3Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
- 4Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Hopital Claude Huriez, CHRU Lille, France
- Correspondence to:
Professor J-F Colombel
Department of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Hopital Claude Huriez, CHRU de Lille, 59037 Lille Cedex, France; jfcolombel{at}chru-lille.fr
Abstract
In recent years, investigators have readdressed the complex issues involved in the classification of inflammatory bowel diseases. In 2003, a Working Party of investigators with an interest in the issues involved in disease subclassification was formed with the aim of summarising recent developments in disease classification and establishing an integrated clinical, molecular, and serological classification of inflammatory bowel disease. The results of the Working Party were reported at the 2005 Montreal World Congress of Gastroenterology. Here we highlight the key issues that have emerged from discussions of the Montreal Working Party and the relevance to clinical practice and research activities.
- IBDU, inflammatory bowel disease, type unclassified
- ASCA, anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibody
- ANCA, antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody
- inflammatory bowel disease
- Crohn’s disease
- ulcerative colitis
- indeterminate colitis
- classification
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