Ulcerative colitis

Background

• A form of inflammatory bowel disease

Differential Diagnosis

• Crohn disease
• Infectious
  • Amoebic dysentery
  • Bacterial colitis, including Escherichia coli
  • Clostridioides difficile
  • Viral colitis
  • Parasitic colitis
• Non-infectious
  • Ischemic colitis
  • Microscopic colitis

Management

• Preventative medicine
  • Annual or biannual colonoscopies starting after 8 years of disease