Lymphocytic colitis is a type of microscopic colitis that causes persistent, watery diarrhea. Experts still do not know the exact underlying cause. Microscopic colitis involves inflammation of the ...

Few randomized, controlled trials have investigated the efficacy of pharmacological treatment for lymphocytic colitis. Data from a new randomized, placebo-controlled trial have demonstrated the ...

Microscopic colitis (MC) encompasses lymphocytic and collagenous colitis, with an increasing incidence in Northern Europe. Clinical presentations of MC and irritable bowel syndrome are similar and ...

"Microscopic colitis can be detected with 100% sensitivity by analyzing biopsy specimens from the ascending and descending colon. We propose a Western protocol (taking two biopsy specimens each from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patient 1, a 56-year-old man with stage III right axillary malignant melanoma, was treated with surgical resection, adjuvant radiation, and nivolumab. The treatment was complicated by the development ...