ArticleWorld journal of gastroenterology2013
Microscopic colitis: is it a spectrum of inflammatory bowel disease?
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- Manifestations of the oral mucosa and salivary glands in irritable bowel syndrome and microscopic colitis - A systematic review.Acta odontologica Scandinavica · 2025Pooled it
- What can inherited immunodeficiencies reveal about pyoderma gangrenosum?Experimental dermatology · 2024Review
- Characteristics and outcomes of cancer patients with pre-existing microscopic colitis after exposure to PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023Article
- A Tale of Two Colitides.Cureus · 2022Article
- Insights into the underlying mechanisms and clinical management of microscopic colitis in relation to other gastrointestinal disorders.Gastroenterology report · 2022Review
- Macroscopic to Microscopic - A Case of Crohn's Disease Progressing to Collagenous Colitis.Cureus · 2021Article
- Biochemical evaluation and molecular docking assessment of the anti-inflammatory potential ofHeliyon · 2020Article
- The Gut Microbiota in Collagenous Colitis Shares Characteristics With Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Associated Dysbiosis.Clinical and translational gastroenterology · 2019Article
- Development of collagenous colitis in inflammatory bowel disease: two case reports and a review of the literature.Gastroenterology report · 2019Article
- Lymphocytic Colitis Diagnosis 40 Years after Onset of Ulcerative Colitis.ACG case reports journal · 2018Article
- Microscopic Colitis Evolved Into Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Is Characterized by Increased Th1/Tc1 Cells in Colonic Mucosal Lamina Propria.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2017Article
- Symptomatic Microscopic Colitis Atop Quiescent Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Case Series.ACG case reports journal · 2017Article
- New insights and challenges in microscopic colitis.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2015Review
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Abstract
Lymphocytic and collagenous colitis are forms of microscopic colitis which typically presents in elderly patients as chronic watery diarrhea. The association between microscopic colitis and inflammatory bowel disease is weak and unclear. Lymphocytic colitis progressing to ulcerative colitis has been previously reported; however there is limited data on ulcerative colitis evolving into microscopic (lymphocytic or collagenous) colitis. We report a series of six patients with documented ulcerative colitis who subsequently were diagnosed with collagenous colitis or lymphocytic colitis suggesting microscopic colitis could be a part of the spectrum of inflammatory bowel disease. The median duration of ulcerative colitis prior to being diagnosed with microscopic colitis was 15 years. We noted complete histological and/or symptomatic remission in three out of six cases while the other three patients reverted back into ulcerative colitis suggesting lymphocytic or collagenous colitis could present as a continuum of ulcerative colitis. The exact molecular mechanism of this histological transformation or the prognostic implications is still unclear. Till then it might be prudent to follow up these patients to assess for the relapse of inflammatory bowel disease as well as for dysplasia surveillance.
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