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Posted 2/10/2013 11:32 AM (GMT 0)
Interesting potential in treating strictures, but still sounds like a long way off.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/255676.php

Posted 2/10/2013 3:45 PM (GMT 0)
That is aimed at fibrotic strictures too, which is good. Inflammatory strictures are not hard to treat, but so far there is nothing which can be done about strictures comprised of scar tissue, short of surgery.

Bit of an aside, this, but this is by far and and away the lowest stat I've seen given for Crohn's patients and surgery. I wonder if it was a typo, since everything else I have ever seen has given surgery rates ranging from 65-80%.

In cases of severe fibrosis, the only remedy is surgical excision of the strictured gut and around 30 per cent of Crohn's disease sufferers will undergo surgery at least once.
Posted 2/10/2013 5:31 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, I couldn't remember the percentages, but I thought that sounded awfully low.

I'd like to know what the numbers for how long it takes new innovations in treatment to actually be approved and put into use.

Seems like everytime I read about some advancement in treatment or medication, It will be many years down the road until anyone can actually benefit from it.  

Posted 2/10/2013 8:08 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you. Great though it is still to be experimented w. I'm one of the people who has recurrent rectal strictures and at the time being I'm suffering from difficulty in having a bm and severe cramps though my CD is diarrheal-based. Producing a med targeted towards such a an IL will definitely solve my problem and other people's who suffer more than that.
Looking forward to the day when the day comes and there is a real med for this.
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