Colitis
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Clinic
- Colitis is swelling or inflammation of colon
- Colitis may be acute and self-limited or long-term
- It is an entity
Signs / Symptoms
- Mild to severe abdominal pains and tenderness
- Persistent hemorrhagic diarrhea
- Pus in stools
- Fecal incontinence
- Flatulence
- Fatigue, loss of appetite and unexplained weight loss
- Signs seen on colonoscopy: Colonic mucosal erythema, Ulcerations and Hemorrhage
Types
- Autoimmune: IBD: Ulcerative colitis (UC), Crohn's disease (CD): MTB, CMV, HSV-1
- Microscopic colitis
- Lymphocytic colitis
- Collagenous colitis
- Infectious colitis
- Clostridioides difficile colitis = C-diff colitis
- Enterohemorrhagic colitis may be caused by Shiga toxin in Shigella dysenteriae
- Parasitic infections, like those caused by Entamoeba histolytica
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