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Dorsal root ganglion stimulation provides functional improvement from debilitating abdominal pain in Crohn’s disease: A 12-month follow-up.
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Khawer A, Chopra H, AlFarra T, Sivanesan EAbstract
Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic relapsing-remitting, immunological, inflammatory bowel disease involving any part of the gastrointestinal tract, most commonly, the terminal ileum. Abdominal pain is a prominent debilitating symptom of CD due to continuous intestinal inflammation, associated with disease severity and complications. However, abdominal pain has shown to occur even with disease remission.