Practical advice for management of inflammatory bowel diseases patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: World Endoscopy Organization Statement

Helmut Neumann; Fabian Emura; Bernd Bokemeyer; Nalini Guda; Hisao Tajiri; Takayuki Matsumoto; David T Rubin

doi:10.1111/den.13712

Practical advice for management of inflammatory bowel diseases patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: World Endoscopy Organization Statement

Dig Endosc. 2020 Jul;32(5):658-662. doi: 10.1111/den.13712. Epub 2020 Jun 11.

Authors

Helmut Neumann¹, Fabian Emura^{2

3}, Bernd Bokemeyer⁴, Nalini Guda⁵, Hisao Tajiri⁶, Takayuki Matsumoto⁷, David T Rubin⁸

Affiliations

¹ Interdisciplinary Endoscopy, First Medical Department, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
² Advanced Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, EmuraCenter LatinoAmerica, Bogotá DC, Colombia.
³ Division of Gastroenterology, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía, Colombia.
⁴ Gastroenterology Practice Minden, Minden, Germany.
⁵ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.
⁶ Department of Innovative Interventional Endoscopy Research, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
⁷ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan.
⁸ Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, USA.

PMID: 32369646
DOI: 10.1111/den.13712

Abstract

COVID-19 is rapidly spreading worldwide and specific literature how to deal with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) patients is limited so far. Here, the World Endoscopy Organisation is providing practical advice for the management of IBD patients during the pandemic covering the diagnostic and therapeutic spectrum.

Keywords: COVID-19; IBD; coronavirus; endoscopy; ulcerative colitis.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
Disease Management
Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / methods
Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / standards*
Female
Humans
Infection Control / standards*
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / diagnosis
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / therapy*
Male
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Pandemics / statistics & numerical data
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
Practice Guidelines as Topic*
Risk Assessment
Safety Management / methods*
Societies, Medical
World Health Organization