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 ...

Patients with autoimmune thyroid disease had a 65% higher risk of developing microscopic colitis, with the strongest association observed in patients diagnosed with microscopic colitis before 50 years ...

Microscopic colitis (MC) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that severely reduces quality of life. MC is responsible for over 30% of all chronic diarrhea cases in people over 65 years of age, and ...

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 ...

Enterocolitis is among the leading adverse events associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). There are limited retrospective data regarding the safety of ICIs in patients with inflammatory ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although a feature in microscopic colitis, gut microbiota dysbiosis was also observed in functional and bile ...

17,000 people are diagnosed with microscopic colitis each year in the UK, but charity Guts UK believes the real figure could be a lot higher, due to high rates of misdiagnosis and the complex way the ...

Various factors may increase risk for microscopic colitis — NSAIDs among them. Risk factors including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), statins, proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), and smoking ...

"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 ...