Ulcerative Colitis, Case Report

Abstract

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is defined as an entity whose main characteristic is chronic inflammation in different locations of the digestive tract, characterized by its clinical course, periods of inactivity or remission, induced in most cases by established medical treatment, alternating with others of activity, which are known as outbreaks. This group includes other diseases with different characteristics and evolution, such as ulcerative colitis (UC) characterized by being a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the colon mucosa in a diffuse, continuous and exclusive way.

Description of clinical case: 8-year-old male schoolboy, with a history of Hepatitis A, with a history of diarrhea with mucus, blood, pain and abdominal distension of 4 months of evolution, accompanied by anemia and clubbing; An endoscope study was carried out that showed moderate nodular gastropathy of the antrum, moderate nodular duodenitis and ulcerative colitis, his biopsy reported ulcerative colitis.

Conclusion: UC being an inflammatory disease predominantly of the large intestine, it should be suspected in patients with chronic gastrointestinal manifestations. The following is a case of a pediatric patient where you can observe gastrointestinal manifestations as well as unusual extragastrointestial.