Transcription of Collagenous & Lymphocytic Colitis: Introduction
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Collagenous & Lymphocytic Colitis: Introduction
Location of the colon in the & Lymphocytic colitis : Introduction Researchers (Read, et al.) used the term microscopic colitis in 1980 to describe the entity of chronic, watery diarrhea in patientswith only microscopic evidence of inflammation. The term is currently used to include Collagenous and Lymphocytic colitis . What are Collagenous and Lymphocytic colitis ? Collagenous and Lymphocytic colitis are clinical and pathologic syndromes representing forms of microscopic colitis that affect the large intestine. Both disordersusually present in middle-aged patients in the fifth or sixth decade of life. Collagenous colitis primarily affects women. The predominance in the female to malepopulation is 8:2. Lymphocytic colitis is found in both men and women with an equal male-to-female gender distribution. Those affected by Lymphocytic colitis areslightly younger; the mean age of onset is 53 years.
Lower endoscopy with colonic biopsy is the standard of diagnosis. Colonoscopy is the primary method for examination of the colon with extremely low complication rates (0.1–0.3%). The procedure allows the physician to visualize and biopsy the lower gastrointestinal tract with a high-resolution color view of the mucosa through wide-angle optics.
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