Crohn always preferred the medically descriptive terms " regional ileitis " and " regional enteritis " to " Crohn's disease ", but he was not able to prevent the appropriation of his name for the disease.
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In a small proportion of cases, complications such as skin rash, joint pains, ileitis, erythema nodosum, and sometimes septicemia, acute arthritis or the spread of bacteria to the bloodstream ( bacteremia ) can occur.
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Eisenhower suffered three major illnesses when he was in the White House _ a heart attack in 1955, a blockage and an inflammation of the lower small intestine, a condition known as ileitis, in 1956, and a stroke in 1957.
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What was initially known as " terminal ileitis " eventually became known as " Crohn's Disease, " as Dr . Crohn's name was the first to be listed in the paper, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association also in 1932.
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Many elected officials, starting with Dwight D . Eisenhower, who suffered a heart attack as president in 1955 and also suffered from Crohn's ileitis, have released extensive information when they were stricken with illness, out of a sense of duty and to help educate the public.
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The recent extension of this technique to Crohn s disease of the last portion of the small bowel going into the right colon ( terminal ileum ) is poised to change the paradigm of surgical treatment of terminal ileitis from a conventional resection ( ilecolectomy ) to a bowel sparing procedure ( SSIS ).
