Ulcerative colitis

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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

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Gastroenterology