Third European Evidence-based Consensus on Diagnosis and Management of Ulcerative Colitis. Part 1: Definitions, Diagnosis, Extra-intestinal Manifestations, Pregnancy, Cancer Surveillance, Surgery, and Ileo-anal Pouch Disorders

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Porto; MedInUP, Centre for Drug Discovery and Innovative Medicines; Centro Hospitalar São João, Porto, Portugal.
• ² IBD Unit, DIMEC, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
• ³ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
• ⁴ Gastrointestinal Unit ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco-University of Milan-Milan, Italy.
• ⁵ IBD Unit Complesso Integrato Columbus, Gastroenterological and Endocrino-Metabolical Sciences Department, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Gemelli Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
• ⁶ Department of Gastroenterology, IBD Unit, University Hospital Santiago De Compostela (CHUS), A Coruña, Spain.
• ⁷ Department of Gastroenterology, North Zealand University Hospital, Frederikssund, Denmark.
• ⁸ First Department of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest,Hungary.
• ⁹ IBD Unit, St Mark's Hospital,Middlesex, UK.
• ¹⁰ Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
• ¹¹ Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
• ¹² Department of Gastroenterology, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust; Institute of Inflammation and Repair, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
• ¹³ Unit of General Surgery, Second University of Naples,Napoli, Italy.
• ¹⁴ Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology, Department of Oncological Gastroenterology Warsaw; Medical Centre for Postgraduate Education, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Oncology, Warsaw, Poland.
• ¹⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge,UK.
• ¹⁶ Imperial College London; Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London,UK.
• ¹⁷ Department of Pathobiology /NC22, Lerner Research Institute; Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition/A3, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.