Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women who undergo menopausal hormone therapy appear to have a higher risk for developing microscopic colitis, ...

"Microscopic colitis can be detected with 100% sensitivity by analyzing biopsy specimens from the ascending and descending colon. We propose a Western protocol (taking two biopsy specimens each from ...

Microscopic colitis is the most recently recognized inflammatory condition of the large intestine in which abnormal reactions of the immune system cause inflammation of the inner lining of the colon.

Microscopic colitis is an inflammatory condition of the large bowel presenting predominantly with chronic, non-bloody, watery diarrhoea. It comprises two main histological subtypes: collagenous ...

Dear Dr. Roach: 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 ...

A new study examines how multiple factors contribute to the miscommunication and understanding of the digestive disease, microscopic colitis. It's a hidden cause of diarrhea and the development of the ...

The occurrence of microscopic colitis in Sweden has risen steadily over the past decades, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. The ...

Patients with microscopic colitis have a 27% higher risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), equal to one extra case of MACE for every 13 patients followed for 10 years. The cohort ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WASHINGTON — Postmenopausal women who received hormone replacement therapy were at an increased risk for ...

It's a hidden cause of diarrhea and the development of the disease is poorly understood. Multiple factors work against the diagnosis of microscopic colitis, an inflammatory digestive disease, because ...

Patients with microscopic colitis and IBS can have similar symptoms, but the two disorders are histologically dissimilar and treatment might be different. It is not known how much symptom overlap ...

(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 ...