We present the case of an 18-year-old male who was diagnosed at age 15 with extensive ileal and colonic Crohn's disease with rectal involvement and associated perianal fistula. The patient received different treatments with biologics withouth achieving response, so we decide to try combination therapy with subcutaneous Infliximab and Risakizumab. The patient showed improvement at second week, achieving both analytical, clinical and endoscopic response .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEosinophilic esophagitis is a rare, recently discovered disease, characterized by esophageal symptoms, such as dysphagia and food impaction, associated with dense eosinophilia on endoscopic biopsy of the esophagus. Other entities such as gastroesophageal reflux disease are absent and there is a lack of response to proton pump inhibitor therapy. This disease mainly affects the pediatric population but is becoming more prevalent in adults.
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