Cyclosporine in the Treatment of Steroid Resistant Severe Ulcerative Colitis: A Word of Caution
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Cyclosporine may be considered as state of the art treatment for steroid resistant severe ulcerative colitis. Up to 30-40% of the patients with severe ulcerative colitis will fail to respond to intravenous steroid treatment and would require surgical treatment. I report a case of steroid resistant severe ulcerative colitis, which failed to respond to cyclosporine due to presence of cytomegalovirus infection causing ischaemic colitis that had been seen on histopathological examination.
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