Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Complexity and Variability Need Integration

Claudio Fiocchi^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathobiology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH, United States.
² Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States.

Claudio Fiocchi. Front Med (Lausanne). 2018.

. 2018 Mar 21:5:75.

doi: 10.3389/fmed.2018.00075. eCollection 2018.

Claudio Fiocchi^{1

2}

¹ Department of Pathobiology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH, United States.
² Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: Crohn’s disease; complexity; inflammatory bowel disease; network medicine; systems biology; ulcerative colitis; variability.

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