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Chronic Inflammatory Diarrhea

Aka: Chronic Inflammatory Diarrhea
  1. See Also
    1. Diarrhea
    2. Chronic Fatty Diarrhea (Diarrhea due to Malabsorption)
    3. Chronic Watery Diarrhea (Secretory or Osmotic Diarrhea)
    4. Infectious Diarrhea
    5. Drug-Induced Diarrhea
    6. Diarrhea in Cancer
    7. Diarrhea in Children
    8. Diarrhea in Pregnancy
    9. Diarrhea in HIV
  2. Causes
    1. Inflammatory Bowel Disease
      1. Ulcerative Colitis
      2. Crohn's Disease
      3. Diverticulitis
    2. Infections
      1. Clostridium difficile
      2. Bacterial infections
        1. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
        2. Yersinia infection
      3. Viral infection (ulcerative)
        1. Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
        2. Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV)
      4. Parasitic infection
        1. Amebiasis
        2. Strongyloides
    3. Ischemic colitis
    4. Radiation Colitis
    5. Malignancy
      1. Colon Cancer
      2. Lymphoma
      3. Villous adenocarcinoma
  3. Labs
    1. Stool Leukocytes with gross blood and pus present
    2. Fecal Calprotectin level
      1. Highly sensitive and specific for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  4. Diagnostics
    1. Colonoscopy with biopsy
  5. References
    1. Schiller in Feldman (2002) Sleisenger GI, p. 136

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