Letter: paying attention to the comorbidities or extraintestinal complications in patients with inflammatory bowel disease during the COVID‐19 pandemic—authors’ reply
Abstract:The authors noted that recent data by Ricciuto et al. have found acute severe IBD to be associated with severe COVID-19 disease outcomes. 3 ICU/ventilation/death in IBD sub-cohorts with remission, moderate disease and severe IBD was 3.6%, 4.9% and 8.8%, respectively. We beg to differ with the authors that these rates are different to those observed in our cohort. Critical care need in patients with IBD was 3.36% in our cohort and in IBD patients with recent steroid use was 7.97%. These patients likely represen… Show more
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