Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease: Diagnostics, treatment and psychosocial consequences

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a lifelong disease, characterized by chronic relapsing inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are two main phenotypes of IBD. In this thesis, several aspects of pediatric IBD are evaluated, including pathogenesis, diagnostics, treatment and psychosocial consequences