What is another name for Steroid-responsive enteropathy?

What is another name for Steroid-responsive enteropathy?

• A. Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
• B. Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• C. Celiac disease
• D. Gastritis

Answer: (A)

Steroid-responsive enteropathy describes a chronic inflammatory condition of the intestines that typically improves with corticosteroid treatment. That pattern fits inflammatory bowel disease, which encompasses ongoing inflammation of the gut such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in humans and similar inflammatory enteropathies in animals. Irritable bowel syndrome is a functional disorder without mucosal inflammation and typically doesn’t respond to steroids. Celiac disease is an autoimmune reaction to gluten with characteristic villous changes, not defined by steroid responsiveness. Gastritis involves inflammation of the stomach, not the small intestine. So the best term that aligns with steroid-responsive intestinal inflammation is inflammatory bowel disease.

Steroid-responsive enteropathy describes a chronic inflammatory condition of the intestines that typically improves with corticosteroid treatment. That pattern fits inflammatory bowel disease, which encompasses ongoing inflammation of the gut such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in humans and similar inflammatory enteropathies in animals. Irritable bowel syndrome is a functional disorder without mucosal inflammation and typically doesn’t respond to steroids. Celiac disease is an autoimmune reaction to gluten with characteristic villous changes, not defined by steroid responsiveness. Gastritis involves inflammation of the stomach, not the small intestine. So the best term that aligns with steroid-responsive intestinal inflammation is inflammatory bowel disease.