Publications by authors named "Ana Guzman-Carcamo"
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- - Colitis is inflammation of the colon that comes in various forms, including Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), microscopic colitis, ischemic colitis, and infectious colitis, with non-specific colitis potentially indicating undiagnosed IBD according to recent studies.
- - A retrospective study followed 24 patients (mostly females) with non-specific colitis who underwent multiple colonoscopies from 2009 to 2019, revealing common symptoms like abdominal pain and blood in stools, and diverse diagnoses in those who were retested.
- - The findings highlight that a significant percentage of male patients were later diagnosed with conditions like colon cancer and eosinophilic colitis, while a majority of female patients continued to present with
Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects an estimated 1.6 million people in the United States with at least 70,000 new cases per year. In the last 15 years an increase in frequency of IBD cases from 0.
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