Digestive System Diseases: News and Research on Colitis, Microscopic

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Researcher explores epidemiology and health economics in gastrointestinal diseases

A thesis from Karolinska Institutet shows the significant societal economic burdens posed by two chronic inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases; eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and microscopic colitis (MC). Both diseases cause ...

Dec 3, 2024

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Microscopic colitis explained—and why it's often mistaken for IBS

In 1976, a Swedish pathologist, C.G Lindström, published a paper describing a colonic anomaly. Through his microscope, he noted that part of the large intestinal wall of one of his patients was thickened. The patient, whose ...

Dec 13, 2023

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