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cord-343832-xg3swuzs	Pugliese, Daniela	The management of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in the era of COVID-19 pandemic: when “non-urgent” does not mean “deferrable”	2020-06-18		.txt	text/plain	1742	92	43	authors: Pugliese, Daniela; Papi, Claudio; Privitera, Giuseppe; Aratari, Annalisa; Festa, Stefano; Armuzzi, Alessandro Accordingly, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Units throughout the country had to re-organize their own agenda, limiting the accesses to 3 categories of outpatients: 1) patients undergoing biological therapies, for whom the risk of disease relapse is considered more worrying than the risk of COVID-19 infection; 2) patients enrolled in clinical trials in order to guarantee the prosecution of therapies and 3) patients complaining of acute symptoms, not manageable with telemedicine. 1-2 Examples of "non deferrable" visits are for patients complaining of moderate-to-severe IBD symptoms, new onset/relapse of extra-intestinal manifestations, active perianal disease or sub-acute obstruction symptoms requiring surgery. 4 Accordingly, highly suspect CD patients should be promptly investigated in order to start early and effective treatment strategies, aimed to impact the long-term clinical course and to reduce the risk of complications.	./cache/cord-343832-xg3swuzs.txt	./txt/cord-343832-xg3swuzs.txt