Toxic Megacolon Complicating Ulcerative Colitis: Current Therapeutic Perspectives

Toxic megacolon during pregnancy in ulcerative colitis: A case report

INTRODUCTION Ulcerative colitis is an idiopathic inflammatory bowel condition whose peak incidence coincides with fertility in female patients. In pregnancy, acute fulminant colitis is rare, and, when it becomes refractory to maximum medical therapy, emergency colectomy is mandated. Over the past quarter century, there have been few reports of this rare event in the literature. PRESENTATION O...

Lymphoma complicating ulcerative colitis.

Malignant lymphoma complicating ulcerative colitis.

Carcinoma of the colon as a complication of chronic ulcerative colitis is relatively common, whereas malignant lymphoma is apparently rare. We report two cases of patients with malignant lymphoma complicating ulcerative colitis, a CD 30 + T-cell lymphoma of the intestine and a low grade B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of MALT type. It is important to be aware of the possibility of malignant lymph...

Dialatation of the colon (toxic megacolon) in acute fulminating ulcerative colitis.

DURING the past decade there appears to have been an increase in the incidence of chronic nonspecific ulcerative colitis in the southwest. Since 1949, I have removed all, or a part , of the colon and rectum f rom 40 patients suffering with this disease. This is a relatively small num be r of patients, but it is significant that only twe i'teostomies had been performed for ulcerative colitis in ...

AIDS related Kaposi's sarcoma presenting as ulcerative colitis and complicated by toxic megacolon.

Gastrointestinal Kaposi's sarcoma is a well described and usually asymptomatic manifestation of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. We report a patient who had extensive colonic Kaposi's sarcoma and presented with an ulcerative colitis like illness. Total colectomy was subsequently required as an emergency procedure for toxic megacolon. The patient remains well on maintenance interferon th...