Ulcerative colitis: about a pediatric case

Ulcerative colitis: about a pediatric case

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The case of an 8-year-old male patient with a previous health history was presented, referred to the BIOTINE 5000MCG Gastroenterology outpatient clinic of the Guido Valadares National Hospital, East Timor, for recurrent episodes of mucosanguineous diarrhea accompanied by abdominal pain in the hypogastrium with four months of evolution.Laboratory tests, abdominal ultrasound and video colonoscopy with cytology and biopsy of the colon mucosa were performed.The endoscopic study reported extensive ulcerative colitis and the histology gave the diagnosis of a chronic inflammatory bowel disease of the ulcerative colitis type.Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory intestinal process of unknown origin that causes chronic, diffuse and continuous inflammation in the mucosa and submucosa.Its Xbox Series X incidence in children is increasing and affects even infants.

Dietary and drug treatment was indicated.He is currently asymptomatic and undergoes monthly follow-up in the Digestive Clinic.