The research team led by Levent Erdem from Şişli Etfal Teaching and Research Hospital of Turkey investigated the prevalence and demography of microscopic colitis in patients with diarrhea of unknown ...

Collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis, the two main subtypes of microscopic colitis, may develop as a result of an immune response. This could happen when something causes the body to mistakenly ...

For over a decade, a UK mom experienced increasing diarrhea, bathroom urgency, and fatigue. She was finally diagnosed with microscopic colitis, which requires a biopsy of the colon, in 2022. The ...

Microscopic colitis (MC) is an inflammatory disease of the colon encompassing the two subtypes of lymphocytic colitis and collagenous colitis. MC often causes chronic, watery diarrhea as well as ...

(a) Atrophic/withering crypts (red arrow) and lamina propria vascular congestion. Notice that the cellularity of the lamina propria is not significantly increased. (b) Vascular congestion and ...

Microscopic colitis is colon inflammation that may give you chronic watery diarrhea. Changes to your diet, medications, or surgery might be possible treatments to consider. Microscopic colitis is an ...

Between 1986 and 2003, 43 eligible patients were identified, 29 female and 14 male, ranging in age from 32 years to 88 years at the time of diagnosis. The majority of patients were aged between 50 and ...

David Bergman has previously received funding from Mag-Tarmfonden. In 1976, a Swedish pathologist, C.G Lindström, published a paper describing a colonic anomaly. Through his microscope, he noted that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although a feature in microscopic colitis, gut microbiota dysbiosis was also observed in functional and bile ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have had microscopic colitis since 2013 and have been prescribed 3 mg of Entocort every day. I have some good days but mostly not-so-good days. Changing my diet does not seem to help ...

Dear R.C.: The immune system has two major components: antibody-producing cells (B cells) and T cells. Both of these are important in fighting off infections, but T cells are particularly important in ...