Series of clinical observations of Crohn’s disease of the upper gastrointestinal tract

Abstract

The article introduces two clinical cases of successful treatment of Crohn’s disease (CD) of the upper gastrointestinal tract (UGT) with TNF inhibitors. Besides that, the article presentes the review, devoted to diagnostics and treat the same injury of patients with CD. It should be mentioned, that number of publications in worldwide and national literature is quite insignificant. One fact that is more important is the unavailability of unificational approach to treatment of such group of patients. We suppose that epidemiological research is necessary to define the true prevalence of lesions of the upper gastrointestinal tract in CD, risk factors and prognosis for this patient group, and to output the diagnostic and therapeutic tactics.