Episode Description: In this episode of Lion’s Digest – Advances in GI and Hepatology, host Dr. Manny Williams sits down with Dr. Matthew Coates to explore the emerging concept of “silent IBD.” While inflammatory bowel disease is often associated with significant gastrointestinal symptoms, some patients harbor active intestinal inflammation despite minimal or absent clinical symptoms—a phenotype that can delay diagnosis and treatment.

Dr. Coates discusses how clinicians can begin to recognize and identify patients with silent IBD, highlighting key clues from biomarkers, endoscopy, and cross-sectional imaging that may reveal ongoing disease activity even when patients report feeling well. The conversation also dives into his ...