Your Good Health: Explaining microscopic colitis and what causes the condition

Microscopic colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the colon. It comes in two pathologic forms — collagenous colitis ...
Altoona Mirror

Explaining microscopic colitis, causes

I am a 64-year-old female who is in moderate health. After a monthslong bout of diarrhea, blood work, and a colonoscopy, I’ve been diagnosed with microscopic colitis. After a round of budesonide, my ...
Medscape

Collagenous Colitis: Oral Low-Dose Methotrexate for Patients With Difficult Symptoms: Long-Term Outcomes

Between 1986 and 2003, 43 eligible patients were identified, 29 female and 14 male, ranging in age from 32 years to 88 years at the time of diagnosis. The majority of patients were aged between 50 and ...
The Post-Journal

Chronic Colon Inflammation Calls For Long-Term Oral Steroid

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was diagnosed with collagenous colitis nearly three years ago. I was prescribed budesonide, which brought it under control. I have tried getting off the medication several times, but ...
EurekAlert!

Microscopic colitis: A review of the literature and histopathologic mimickers

(a) Atrophic/withering crypts (red arrow) and lamina propria vascular congestion. Notice that the cellularity of the lamina propria is not significantly increased. (b) Vascular congestion and ...