A wide range of etiologies and pathogenic mechanisms underlie colitis. This Review provides an overview of the pathophysiology, epidemiology, histopathology, and clinical characteristics of ...

Ischemic colitis reduces blood flow to the colon or large intestine. Mesenteric ischemia is a reduction in blood flow to the small intestine due to the narrowing of the arteries. Both conditions are ...

DelveInsight's Ulcerative Colitis Market Insights report includes a comprehensive understanding of current treatment practices, ulcerative colitis emerging drugs, market share of individual therapies, ...

Your belly hurts. The diarrhea keeps coming. And you certainly don’t feel like eating. These are telltale signs of colitis. But which kind? Colitis is a term used to describe inflammation in your ...

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What Is Inflammatory Bowel Disease? Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of disorders in which the intestines become inflamed. It happens when your immune system launches repeated attacks that ...

You probably already know this part, but a quick refresher doesn’t hurt. As a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ulcerative colitis creates inflammation in the gastrointestinal (G.I.) tract.

Colitis occurs when your colon, or large intestine, is inflamed. Microscopic colitis is a type of colitis that’s best identified by looking at colon cells under a microscope. The main subtypes of ...

Ulcerative colitis (UC) can have a wide range of symptoms and complications, from rectal pain and bleeding to weight loss, frequent diarrhea, skin issues, joint pain, and even liver problems. It can ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why smoking makes Crohn’s disease worse but seems to protect people from ulcerative colitis. Now, researchers at RIKEN have discovered that smoking creates ...

Diarrhea is a frequent complication of hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT). Important causes of diarrhea after HSCT include acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), infections, and ...