Clinic Overview

The Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary care for children with inflammatory bowel diseases. Our providers have a broad range of clinical expertise and experience. Together, they are able to tailor a treatment plan to each patient, coordinated by specialized nurses caring for the patient's unique needs.

Learn more about our physicians' gastroentology and pediatrics expertise.

Conditions we treat

• Crohns
• Ulcerative colitis
• Indeterminant colitis
• Eosinophilic esophagitis
• Autoimmune
• Eosinophilic enteropathy

Treatments

We offer a comprehensive array of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and consultation including:

• Upper endoscopy (esophagoduodenoscopy or EGD)
• Colonoscopy
• Upper gastrointestinal series
• Small bowel follow through series
• CT enterography
• MR enterography
• PE-CT scan
• Percutaneous endoscopic and surgical gastrostomy
• Infliximab (Remicade) infusions
• Nasogastric enteral nutrition therapy

We also offer the following services:

• Nutritional therapy for Crohn's disease
• Complete diagnostic evaluation for IBD and its complications
• Multidisciplinary team care approach
• Individualized treatment plans and follow up
• State-of-the-art evidence-based clinical care approaches into everyday practice
• Nutritional evaluation
• Growth assessment and treatment if necessary
• Referrals to ophthalmology, endocrinology, rheumatology, pediatric surgery, and other specialties, as needed
• On-going, up-to-date education and support for children and families
• Parental Oversight and Support Committee provides help for families and continued feedback aimed to improve the Center's quality of care and treatment outcomes
   

A partnership of Fairview and University of Minnesota Physicians