EXACERBATION OF ULCERATIVE-COLITIS
EXACERBATION OF ULCERATIVE-COLITIS
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DOI:
10.1016/0016-5085(91)90487-6
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发表时间:
1991-07-01
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影响因子:
29.4
通讯作者:
MINER, PB
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作者:
HERMENS, DJ;MINER, PB
The diagnosis of idiopathic ulcerative colitis was made 4 years before admission and was based on colitis symptoms, endoscopic pancolitis, and unequivocal histological changes. The patient was started on sulfasalazine and prednisone therapy but failed to achieve a complete remission. One year before admission she was having three episodes of bloody diarrhea daily. Her medications were prednisone, 30 mg daily, and sulfasalazine, 1 g tid She complained of intolerable mood swings due to prednisone, but tapering resulted in continuous diarrhea. Her colonic mucosa was edematous, erythematous, granular, and friable from the mid-descending colon to the rectum. The patient responded well to the addition of one 4-g mesalamine enema per day, and steroid therapy was tapered off completely over the next 8 months. She experienced a brief relapse 3 months before admission manifest by abdominal cramping and two to three blood-streaked, loose stools per day. The patient attributed this relapse to a viral upper respiratory infection she had contracted several days earlier. She observed that her colitis flared “every time she had a cold.” This relapse resolved with an increase in oral sulfasalazine and mesalamine enemas. When the patient was seen 10 weeks before admission she was in clinical and sigmoidoscopic remission, with no complaints of pain, diarrhea, or bleeding on a regimen of sulfasalazine, 2 g daily, and mesalamine enemas, 2 g daily. The patient was scheduled to have a pilonidal cyst excised. The case was discussed with the surgeon, who agreed not to use antibiotics perioperatively unless treating a specific infection because of the concern about provoking antibiotic-induced diarrhea or Clostridium dijjkile colitis.