A review of microscopic colitis, a chronic, intermittent inflammatory bowel disease that predominantly affects older women and typically presents with frequent watery, non-bloody stools.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women who undergo menopausal hormone therapy appear to have a higher risk for developing microscopic colitis, ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 64-year-old female who is in moderate health. After a monthslong bout of diarrhea, blood work, and a colonoscopy, I’ve been diagnosed with microscopic colitis. After a round of ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The occurrence of microscopic colitis in Sweden has risen steadily over the past decades, according to a new study from ...

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 microscopic colitis have a 27% higher risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), equal to one extra case of MACE for every 13 patients followed for 10 years. The cohort ...

Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use may potentially be associated with microscopic colitis according to a new review of currently available evidence, published in the journal, Annals of Pharmacotherapy.

(a) Atrophic/withering crypts (red arrow) and lamina propria vascular congestion. Notice that the cellularity of the lamina propria is not significantly increased. (b) Vascular congestion and ...

For over a decade, a UK mom experienced increasing diarrhea, bathroom urgency, and fatigue. She was finally diagnosed with microscopic colitis, which requires a biopsy of the colon, in 2022. The ...

Patients with microscopic colitis and IBS can have similar symptoms, but the two disorders are histologically dissimilar and treatment might be different. It is not known how much symptom overlap ...