David Bergman has previously received funding from Mag-Tarmfonden. In 1976, a Swedish pathologist, C.G Lindström, published a paper describing a colonic anomaly. Through his microscope, he noted that ...

Microscopic colitis is a lifelong condition that causes symptoms such as diarrhea and abdominal pain. It is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). While there is no cure for microscopic colitis, ...

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 ...

Treatment for microscopic colitis usually involves medications to reduce inflammation and immune activity in the colon and lifestyle changes to reduce symptoms. Microscopic colitis, a chronic type of ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have had microscopic colitis since 2013 and have been prescribed 3 mg of Entocort every day. I have some good days but mostly not-so-good days. Changing my diet does not seem to help ...

Patients with autoimmune thyroid disease had a 65% higher risk of developing microscopic colitis, with the strongest association observed in patients diagnosed with microscopic colitis before 50 years ...

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 ...

Microscopic colitis (MC) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that severely reduces quality of life. MC is responsible for over 30% of all chronic diarrhea cases in people over 65 years of age, and ...

Earlier reports blamed several medications including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), statins, and ...

Researchers found no evidence of a causal relationship between most drugs previously implicated in microscopic colitis risk-- including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), proton-pump ...