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EFCCA Magazine 3/2016

The third issue of the EFCCA Magazine 2016 is now available online. We hope you enjoy reading about our latest activities, news from our members and other interesting articles related to IBD such as the Invisible Body (cover photo), latest IBD research, World IBD Day events and many more. A big thanks for your contributions!!!!

Journey through Middle Earth

by Jennifer Coady Travelling has been something I have always had a passion for in life. To travel to all the wonders of the world, see different cultures and meet amazing people along the way. But in November of 2007 all dreams were held up when I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis. I had been suffering for a year with it before the doctors came across it during a colonoscopy. After that...

Exploring South America

The cold, long winter months often make us dream about escaping to some warmer destination. Here we would like to share a story as posted on the website of our colleagues from Crohn´s and Colitis Australia asking volunteers to share their experiences about travelling with IBD. Please note that this information is not intended to be used as medical advice and you should speak to your health care...

Fact Sheet IBD

Factsheet on IBD

Trek to Mount Everest Base Camp

IBD-trek to Mt. Everest Base Camp For many years I’ve been thinking about doing a trek in the Himalayas, especially the trek to Mt. Everest Base Camp. The year of 2014 should be the year to do it! But I’d never been in Asia before so I had to take my precautions, since we’ve all heard stories about people getting sick because of the food there. I took the following three precautions before...

My IBD Journey - Russian translation available

We are pleased to announce that four of our My IBD journey video series are now also available in Russian, the fifth video translation will be released for next World IBD Day.  For many people, diagnosis with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can be an overwhelming and confusing time. Therefore the content of the videos reflect the views and perspectives of people with IBD in...

Educational Forum on Biologics

There are still places available for the educational forum on biologics, to take place on 2 December 2021 from 17 to 19h Central European Time. This forum on key topics related to biologic medicines as well as on challenges of ensuring optimal disease management for patients amid the COVID-19 pandemic is being organised by the pharmaceutical company CELLTRION. EFCCA has been...

Results of survey ¨Patients’ perceptions of surgery in IBD¨

The results of the survey " Patients’ perceptions of surgery for inflammatory bowel disease" have been published this month (16 July) in the Colorectal Disease Journal. EFCCA has collaborated in this study which was led by Professor Antonino Spinelli (Humanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCS, Milan, Italy) and which investigated patients’ perceptions of surgery and the impact on reported...

Final results of perianal fistula survey available

We are excited to share our findings of the survey “The impact of perianal fistula in Crohn’s disease on quality of life” which is being presented virtually at the 16th ECCO Congress (2nd – 3rd and 8th – 10th July, 2021.)  Check out the e-poster with the full results! #ECCOcongress #ECCO2021 #perianalfistula #Crohn #survey Go to poster presentation Read Press Releasef See...

Results of the survey on couples with IBD and their offspring

New publication!   The results of the survey "The phenotypic features of couples with IBD and their offspring"  have now been published in the Annals of Gastroenterology. The survey has been carried out by Dr Joana Torres from the Gastroenterology Department at Hospital Beatriz Ângelo (Portugal) with the support of the European Crohn and Colitis Organization. EFCCA has...