Colitis
Colitis is an ongoing digestive disease. The main symptom of the disease is swelling of the colon. Colitis is treated with antibiotics if it is found early, or surgery if it is caught too late.
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| A micrograph demonstrating cryptitis, a microscopic correlate of colitis. H&E stain. |
Other symptoms of colitis include:
- High amounts of pain
- Tenderness in the abdomen
- Depression
- Large amount of weight loss
- Fatigue (feeling tired)
There are other, more severe symptoms of colitis.
Colitis Media
Micrograph showing intestinal crypt branching, a histopathological finding of chronic colitis. H&E stain.
Micrograph of a colonic pseudomembrane, as may be seen in Clostridioides difficile colitis, a type of infectious colitis.
Histopathology of degenerated crypt of chronic inactive colitis. H&E stain
Crypt branching and other architectural distortions
Neutrophilic cryptitis (neutrophils within crypt epithelium)
Crypt abscesses (luminal neutrophilic aggregates)
Histopathology of gland destruction in active colitis. H&E stain
Ulceration (seen here as absence of epithelium, and granulation tissue with many fibroblasts)
Related pages
Other websites
- Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of Canada Archived 2007-01-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America Archived 2016-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
- The National Association for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease (UK) Archived 2018-12-15 at the Wayback Machine