Khronicheskoye vospalitel'noye zabolevaniye kishechnika avtoimmunnnoy prirody, imeyushcheye transmural'nyy kharakter. Naiboleye chastymi oslozhneniyami yavlyayutsya neobratimyye izmeneniya kishechnika (stenoz kishechnykh segmentov, striktury, svishi); takzhe dlya etogo zabolevaniya kharakternyye mnogochislennyye vnekishechnyye porazheniya. Rasprostranennost' bolezni KRONA v raznykh stranakh mira kolebletsya v predelakh 50-150 sluchaev na 100 000 naseleniya. V Rossii rasprostranennost' v tselom neizvestna, odnako ochevidno, chto nizkiye pokazateli v otdel'no vzyatykh regionakh svyazany s plokhoi diagnostikoy zabolevaniya. Pervyye simptomy bolezni KRONA kak pravilo poyavlyayutsya v molodom vozraste (15-35 let), prichem eto mogut byt' kak kishechnyye, tak i vnekishechnyye proyavleniya. Ochen' vazhno vovremya diagnostirovat' bolezn' KRONA i nachat' lecheniye, poskol'ku yesli diagnoz i lecheniye otlozhit', eto mozhet privesti k ser'yeznym oslozhneniyam. Lecheniye bolezni KRONA obychno vklyuchayet v sebya antimikrobnyye, protivovospalitel'nyye i immunomoduliruyushchiye preparaty, a takzhe khirurgicheskoye vmeshatel'stvo v sluchaye oslozhneniy.