Collagenous Colitis and Lymphocytic Colitis
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What are collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis?
What are the symptoms?
What causes collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis?
Collagenous colitis
Collagenous colitis is inflammation of the colon, the last portion of the digestive tract that ends at the rectum and anus. The most common symptom is chronic watery, non-bloody diarrhoea.
Collagenous colitis - type of colitis caused by an abnormal buildup of collagen, a thread-like protein.
Colon - large intestine.
Colonic inertia - condition of the colon when muscles do not work properly, causing constipation.
collagenous colitis, lymphocytic colitis
Lymphocytic colitis and collagenous colitis are uncommon disorders that have been studied and described in past decades, but remain poorly understood.
In collagenous colitis, there is an additional layer of collagen (scar tissue) just below the lining.
Some experts believe that lymphocytic colitis and collagenous colitis represent different stages of the same disease.
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For example, celiac disease and collagenous colitis are diagnosed by microscopic examination of biopsies of the small bowel and colon, respectively.
Two diseases make up this group of colon inflammation, collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis. In these diseases, the inflammation is caused when the colon wall becomes engorged with either collagen or lymphocytes.
There are other, rarer types of IBD called collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis. Together these are often called microscopic colitis.
IBD is not the same as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
What happens in IBD?
Lymphocytic colitis. Tissue samples show an increase of white blood cells (lymphocytes).
Collagenous colitis. Tissue samples show an increase of white blood cells and a thick layer of protein (collagen).
Microscopic colitis (inflammatory condition that must be diagnosed by looking at cells with a microscope; sometimes called collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis)
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Inflammatory disorders (ulcerative colitis, Crohn's colitis, lymphocytic and collagenous colitis)
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