2008
DOI: 10.1007/s11845-008-0164-9
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Collagenous colitis as a possible cause of toxic megacolon

Abstract: Collagenous colitis is a microscopic colitis characterized by normal appearing colonic mucosa on endoscopy. It is regarded as a clinically benign disease which rarely results in serious complications. We report a case of toxic megacolon occurring in a patient with collagenous colitis. This is the first reported case of toxic megacolon occurring in this subset of patients.

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“…However there are increasing reports describing serious complications associated with collagenous colitis. These include linear colonic mucosal tears and colonic perforations [1,4,[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], either spontaneously [10,11] or secondary to colonoscopy or barium enema, mucosal ulcers [8,9] and toxic megacolon [22], and one death due to protracted course [23].…”
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“…However there are increasing reports describing serious complications associated with collagenous colitis. These include linear colonic mucosal tears and colonic perforations [1,4,[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], either spontaneously [10,11] or secondary to colonoscopy or barium enema, mucosal ulcers [8,9] and toxic megacolon [22], and one death due to protracted course [23].…”
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“…Toxic megacolon was initially described as a complication of ulcerative colitis, then in various forms of colitis: inflammatory, ischemic, infectious, after x-ray, unspecific colitis secondary to chemotherapy [18,19], complication of the collagenous colitis [20,21], colitis from the Behcet syndrome [22,23], Kaposi syndrome [24] and pseudomembranous colitis after therapy with methotrexate.…”
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