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Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) affect especially young patients in reproductive age. IBDs consist in a group of chronic inflammatory conditions that mainly affect the colon and the small intestine. The most frequent IBDs are Crohn’s disease and ulcerous colitis (UC) disease. IBDs significantly affect several reproductive aspects, not only fertility but sexual function. The goal of this chapter is to offer readers a detailed description of these two diseases from prevalence and etiology to clinical manifestations diagnosis and treatment and the effect of both diseases on the reproductive function.

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Goetsch, A.L., Kimelman, D., Woodruff, T.K. (2017). Digestive Autoimmune Diseases: Inflammatory Bowel Disease. In: Fertility Preservation and Restoration for Patients with Complex Medical Conditions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52316-3_15

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