Presentation and management outcome of inflammatory bowel disease in Sudan.

ABSTRACT

This is a retrospective study conducted at the National Center for Gastrointestinal and Liver disease in Khartoum, Sudan on patients diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) during the period between January 1990 and May 2001. The study was conducted to determine the pattern of presentation and management outcome of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) among Sudanese patients. All patients underwent a colonoscopy/ sigmoidoscopy with histopathological diagnosis, or a barium study. Seventy three patients were diagnosed as Ulcerative colitis (UC), and twelve patients as Crohn's disease (CD). The majority of our patients with UC improved with medical treatment. We concluded that IBD is not a rare disease in Sudan, UC being more common than CD. The disease tends to be more common in men in both UC and CD.