roaccutaneâ® (isotretinoin) is used for the treatment of severe forms of acne resistant to adequate standard therapy. inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is described as a possible adverse drug reaction in the product information of isotretinoin. in a case study, we report the case of a 30 year old woman with a history of bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain and severe folliculitis/acne which had been ...

introduction and aims: microscopic colitis has been generally recognized as lymphocytic colitis and collagenous colitis: two inflammatory diseases of large intestine without a definite origin. the colon appears normal by colonoscopy. so, biopsy of the colonic mucosa is mandatory for diagnosis. materials and methods: as a descriptive design we assessed epidemiological, clinical and laboratory fi...

background : the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) may have changed over time. the incidence and prevalence of ibd appears to be lower in asia and south america. although once believed to be infrequent in iran, there has been a rising trend in ibd over the past two decades. however, in iran there is no data about the incidence and prevalence of ibd. materials and methods : â demogra...

aim : the present study evaluated the association between g241r and k469e polymorphisms of intercellular adhesion molecule 1 gene and inflammatory bowel disease in iranian population.   background : inflammatory bowel disease including ulcerative colitis and crohn’s disease, is a chronic idiopathic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract. there are two single base polymorphisms of in...

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are two different types of chronic noninfectious gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases, namely Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative colitis. Renal involvement exists among the extraintestinal involvements IBD. IBD renal in form glomerulonephritis, tubulointerstitial nephritis, nephrolithiasis, amyloidosis. In this article, a 79-year-old male patient who presented wi...

background: minimal bright red bleeding per rectum (mbrbpr) is a common complaint in adult patients. most studies have not been performed in patients with strictly minimal brbpr, and there are no evidence-based recommendations for this group of patients. materials and methods: patients with complaints as small amounts of red blood after wiping or a few drops of blood in the toilet bowl after de...

inflammatory bowel diseases are one of the important reasons of the referral to gi practitioners in our country and ulcerative colitis is the more frequent type of these disease in iran. in this study 200 cases of ulcerative colitis, which has been referred to imam khomeini hospital during that last 5 year, were studied. data was collected using the patient's records and face to face inter...