Background: Appendicectomy reduces the risk of having ulcerative colitis. However, its effect on the natural history of ulcerative colitis remains uncertain. Aim: To determine whether appendicectomy reduces the overall severity of ulcerative colitis. Patients and methods: Appendicectomy status and smoking habits were specified by direct interview in 638 patients seen consecutively between 1997 ...

BACKGROUND Appendicectomy reduces the risk of having ulcerative colitis. However, its effect on the natural history of ulcerative colitis remains uncertain. AIM To determine whether appendicectomy reduces the overall severity of ulcerative colitis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Appendicectomy status and smoking habits were specified by direct interview in 638 patients seen consecutively between 1997...

The intracellular target of butyrate's actions: HDAC or HDON'T? Butyrate, the four-carbon short chain fatty acid, has special significance for clinicians and scientists interested in large bowel physiology. It is normally present in the colonic lumen at millimolar concentrations as a product of bacterial fermentation of luminal carbohydrates and is readily taken up by the colonic epithelium to ...

background: the main purpose of the present paper is to examine the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on perceived stress, stress coping strategies and illness perception in women with ulcerative colitis.   materials and methods: this is an experimental study performed as pretest and post-test. the population consists of woman suffering from ulcerative colitis in isfahan. the s...

Some dermatologic manifestations are common in ulcerative colitis (UC). Herein, we present a 36-year-old woman with ulcerative colitis and uncommon nasal mucosa pyoderma vegetans. The patient presented to our hospital with symptoms of active colitis and a concomitant 3×4×5 cm dermato-mucosal lesion in her left nasal lumen. After surgery of the mucosal lesion, the treatment for her active coliti...

In a prospective, randomised clinical trial, 47 patients with severe, acute, noninfective colitis treated with 60 mg intravenous prednisolone daily, received either bowel rest with parenteral nutrition or oral diet. Although those who received 'bowel rest' experienced a reduction in daily stool weight, there were no differences in the operation or mortality rates between the groups. Fourteen of...

Although patients with ulcerative colitis have an increased risk for colon cancer which is associated with disease activity, location of involvement or the accompanying primary sclerosing cholangitis, ulcerative colitis induced by resections for colorectal carcinoma or chemotherapy drugs are very rare as case presentations in the literature. Fifty-nine year-old female patient with the diagnosis...

We examined the relationship among the multidrug resistance (MDR1) gene product P-glycoprotein (P-gp), ulcerative colitis, and immune status under ulcerative colitis. MDR1 P-gp expression and interleukin-8 levels in ulcerative colitis were determined using immunohistochemistry and a double-antibody sandwich avidin-biotin complex-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, respectively. Nitric oxide cont...

Immunohistological techniques using monoclonal antibodies were employed to study the morphology and phenotypic expression of macrophage like cells in ulcerative colitis, Crohn's colitis and histologically normal colonic mucosa. The antibody RFD1 identifies interdigitating (antigen presenting) cells whereas RFD7 binds to mature tissue macrophages. In normal colonic mucosa, the majority of cells ...

A case of thrombophlebitis migrans in ulcerative colitis in a Maltese housewife is reported. The association of thrombo-embolic disease and ulcerative colitis is reviewed.