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Chronic Inflammatory Diarrhea
Aka: Chronic Inflammatory Diarrhea- See Also
- Causes
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Infections
- Clostridium difficile
- Bacterial infections
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Yersinia infection
- Viral infection (ulcerative)
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
- Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV)
- Parasitic infection
- Ischemic colitis
- Radiation Colitis
- Malignancy
- Colon Cancer
- Lymphoma
- Villous adenocarcinoma
- Labs
- Stool Leukocytes with gross blood and pus present
- Fecal Calprotectin level
- Highly sensitive and specific for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Diagnostics
- Colonoscopy with biopsy
- References
- Schiller in Feldman (2002) Sleisenger GI, p. 136