Suspected Intestinal Tuberculosis Might Be Crohn's Disease

In this case report we provide evidence that supports a link between mycobacteria and Crohn's disease. The patient in question, KG, presented on three separate occasions over a ten years period with features suggestive of intestinal tuberculosis. He was treated successfully on each occasion wit...

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Autores principales: Folaranmi, Semiu Eniola, Mehta, Gautam, Datta, Debasis, Holdstock, Greg
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20490287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/695461
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author Folaranmi, Semiu Eniola
Mehta, Gautam
Datta, Debasis
Holdstock, Greg
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description In this case report we provide evidence that supports a link between mycobacteria and Crohn's disease. The patient in question, KG, presented on three separate occasions over a ten years period with features suggestive of intestinal tuberculosis. He was treated successfully on each occasion with antimycobacterial drugs. When he presented a fourth time with the same symptoms, he was diagnosed with Crohn's disease based on findings from endoscopy, histology and CT. Subsequently he was treated with a course of steroids and made a full recovery. This case adds weight to the theory that mycobateria has an aetiological role in Crohn's disease.
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spelling pubmed-28736352010-05-20 Suspected Intestinal Tuberculosis Might Be Crohn's Disease Folaranmi, Semiu Eniola Mehta, Gautam Datta, Debasis Holdstock, Greg Case Rep Med Case Report In this case report we provide evidence that supports a link between mycobacteria and Crohn's disease. The patient in question, KG, presented on three separate occasions over a ten years period with features suggestive of intestinal tuberculosis. He was treated successfully on each occasion with antimycobacterial drugs. When he presented a fourth time with the same symptoms, he was diagnosed with Crohn's disease based on findings from endoscopy, histology and CT. Subsequently he was treated with a course of steroids and made a full recovery. This case adds weight to the theory that mycobateria has an aetiological role in Crohn's disease. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2873635/ /pubmed/20490287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/695461 Text en Copyright © 2010 Semiu Eniola Folaranmi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Folaranmi, Semiu Eniola
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Datta, Debasis
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Suspected Intestinal Tuberculosis Might Be Crohn's Disease
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title_full Suspected Intestinal Tuberculosis Might Be Crohn's Disease
title_fullStr Suspected Intestinal Tuberculosis Might Be Crohn's Disease
title_full_unstemmed Suspected Intestinal Tuberculosis Might Be Crohn's Disease
title_short Suspected Intestinal Tuberculosis Might Be Crohn's Disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873635/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/695461
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