TY - JOUR
T1 - Collagenous colitis
T2 - Physiologic and histopathologic studies in seven patients
AU - Giardiello, F. M.
AU - Bayless, T. M.
AU - Jessurun, J.
AU - Hamilton, S. R.
AU - Yardley, J. H.
PY - 1987
Y1 - 1987
N2 - Collagenous colitis is a clinicopathologic syndrome with chronic watery diarrhea, diffuse colitis with surface epithelial injury, and a distinctive collagen band beneath the surface epithelium especially in the proximal colon. The cases of seven patients (including six middle-aged women) with chronic, watery, noninfectious diarrhea were studied. Roentgenographic and endoscopic findings were not diagnostic. Two patients had rectal mucosal inflammation but sparing of the distal colon from subepithelial collagen. Other findings included thyroid disease (four patients), urethral fibrosis (three), elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (six), and eosinophilia (three). The colon was thought to be the main source of diarrheal fluid, but bile salt malabsorption, steatorrhea, and net small-bowel secretion were additive factors in some patients. With antiinflammatory treatment the diarrhea abated, the surface epithelial injury decreased, and the subepithelial collagen resolved (two patients), but lamina propria inflammation persisted. Collagenous colitis seems to be a chronic systemic, and perhaps autoimmune, disorder.
AB - Collagenous colitis is a clinicopathologic syndrome with chronic watery diarrhea, diffuse colitis with surface epithelial injury, and a distinctive collagen band beneath the surface epithelium especially in the proximal colon. The cases of seven patients (including six middle-aged women) with chronic, watery, noninfectious diarrhea were studied. Roentgenographic and endoscopic findings were not diagnostic. Two patients had rectal mucosal inflammation but sparing of the distal colon from subepithelial collagen. Other findings included thyroid disease (four patients), urethral fibrosis (three), elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (six), and eosinophilia (three). The colon was thought to be the main source of diarrheal fluid, but bile salt malabsorption, steatorrhea, and net small-bowel secretion were additive factors in some patients. With antiinflammatory treatment the diarrhea abated, the surface epithelial injury decreased, and the subepithelial collagen resolved (two patients), but lamina propria inflammation persisted. Collagenous colitis seems to be a chronic systemic, and perhaps autoimmune, disorder.
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U2 - 10.7326/0003-4819-106-1-46
DO - 10.7326/0003-4819-106-1-46
M3 - Article
C2 - 3789577
AN - SCOPUS:0023120310
SN - 0003-4819
VL - 106
SP - 46
EP - 49
JO - Annals of internal medicine
JF - Annals of internal medicine
IS - 1
ER -