P059 SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED MUCOSAL EOSINOPHILS IN PATIENTS WITH POST-IBD IBS-D SYNDROME MAY HAVE A NEW AVENUE

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in remission who present with irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea (IBS-D) like symptoms pose a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma that is called post-IBD IBS-D. This syndrome was first reported by Isgar et al. who documented IBS-type symptoms in 33% of their patients with chronic ulcerative colitis (CUC) in remission in 1983. In their meta-analysis of 13 studies incorporating 1,703 patients, Halpin and Ford in 2012 calculated a pooled prevalence of 35% for IBS symptoms among IBD subjects in remission.

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