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Diversion colitis: a trigger for ulcerative colitis in the in-stream colon?
Abstract
The aetiology of ulcerative colitis is unknown. Two patients without pre-existing inflammatory bowel disease in whom end colostomy for faecal incontinence was complicated by diversion colitis in the defunctioned rectosigmoid colon, are described. In both instances, colitis with the clinical, colonoscopic, and microscopic features of ulcerative colitis developed about a year later in the previously normal in-stream colon proximal to the colostomy. These cases suggest that diversion colitis may be a risk factor for ulcerative colitis in predisposed individuals and that ulcerative colitis can be triggered by anatomically discontinuous inflammation elsewhere in the large intestine.
- ulcerative colitis
- diversion colitis
Abbreviations
- ANA
- antinuclear antibody
- pANCA
- perinuclear antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody
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Abbreviations
- ANA
- antinuclear antibody
- pANCA
- perinuclear antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody