| Autor: |
van der Wouden, E J, Karrenbeld, A, Kleibeuker, J H, Dijkstra, Gerard |
| Přispěvatelé: |
Guided Treatment in Optimal Selected Cancer Patients (GUTS), Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI), Translational Immunology Groningen (TRIGR), Groningen Institute for Organ Transplantation (GIOT) |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2009 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine, 67(2), 41-5. van Zuiden Communications BV. |
| ISSN: |
0300-2977 |
| Popis: |
Chronic diarrhoea is a frequent complaint in clinical practice. Microscopic colitis is the cause of this symptom in 10% of these cases and the prevalence is rising. To exclude microscopic colitis a colonoscopy with multiple biopsies of different regions of the colon is mandatory. A sigmoidoscopy alone is insufficient. Two histopathological types of microscopic colitis can be distinguished: collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis. Nowadays, there is sufficient evidence to recommend budesonide as the first-choice treatment. Bismuth can also be recommended, but this drug is not easily available in the Netherlands. Evidence of efficacy of other drugs is scant. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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