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Three patients had severe acute pseudomembranous colitis due to Clostridium difficile toxin and required surgical resection. In addition to the characteristic mucosal lesions, the colonic specimens showed a marked degree of diffuse mural edema that extended into the muscularis propia and involved
OBJECTIVE
To report a case of optic disc edema with adjacent retinal ischemia in ulcerative colitis.
METHODS
Photo essay.
METHODS
A 36-year-old white man presented with visual loss OD. Past medical history was significant for ulcerative colitis. The patient had suffered presumed non-arteritic
The potential protective effect of OT on a stress-aggravated colitis model in rats and the involvement of OT receptors were evaluated. Holeboard test performances of Sprague-Dawley rats were videotaped for 5min to evaluate their exploratory behavior as indices of anxiety levels. A subgroup of rats
Cavernous hemangiomas are rare lesions of the colon that usually present with painless, recurrent bleeding. Hemangiomas can be capillary or cavernous type, and 80% of rectal hemangiomas are cavernous type. Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory disorder that affects the rectum and, occasionally, the
The present report describes the morphologic findings in sequential colorectal biopsy specimens obtained from 2 patients who within 1.5-2.5 yr developed collagenous colitis. The initial biopsy specimens revealed an acute nonspecific inflammatory reaction in the colorectal mucosa. An intermediate
METHODS
A 43 years old worker of a fish factory was admitted for spasmodic lower abdominal pain lasting for some hours. Physical examination revealed diffuse abdominal tenderness with a maximum in the right upper and lower abdomen.
METHODS
Laboratory values showed a slight rise in leucocytes with
A 68-year-old man visited our department because of diarrhea and bloody stools. Colonoscopy revealed diverticula scattered in the sigmoid colon with localized mucosal edema and reddening. The mucosa became somewhat rough 9 months later, and had an erosive, ulcerative colitis (UC)-like appearance
A 23-year-old woman was admitted with a relapse of ulcerative colitis. Tacrolimus therapy was initiated following inadequate response to corticosteroid therapy. Although the symptoms partially improved, she suddenly developed severe pain localized to the lower limbs on day 16 of tacrolimus therapy.
Soft feces and a decreased delivery rate were observed in a specific-pathogen-free (SPF) C3H-scid mouse breeding colony. Grossly, the ceca were shrunken and edematous in the affected mice. Histopathologically, severe edema in the cecal submucosa as well as infiltration of inflammatory cells in the
A 59-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of watery diarrhea and bloody stool lasting for a month. The patient had been a habitual smoker, smoking 25 cigarettes/day for 35 years. However, he had recently stopped smoking since a giant bulla in the left lung had been found. One month
BACKGROUND
Retinal vascular disease is a rare complication of ulcerative colitis.
METHODS
We report a patient who developed unilateral nonischemic central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) (papillophlebitis) without any other retinal vascular disease during remission of ulcerative colitis.
METHODS
The
The plain abdominal film findings in nine renal transplant patients with pseudomembranous colitis were characteristic of but not specific for this entity and most commonly showed "thumb-printing" reflecting submucosal edema (five patients) and a persisting localized segmental ileus in the colon