Lymphocytic colitis
Chronic watery diarrhea with normal colonoscopy and lymphocytic infiltration.
Lymphocytic colitis is a subtype of microscopic colitis marked by chronic non-bloody watery diarrhea. Its cause is not definitively established. Peak incidence occurs after age 50, and it affects twice as many women as men.
Quick Facts
- Peak incidence
- over age 50
- Sex ratio
- twice as many women as men
- Associated drug classes
- NSAIDs
- proton pump inhibitors
- selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
- Effective treatment
- budesonide (colonic release)
- Other treatments
- antidiarrheal drugs
- salicylates
- mesalazine
- systemic corticosteroids
- Prognosis
- good, with relapses responding to treatment
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