Crohn´s Disease (12 of 28)

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Case description

Upgrading information. Long and serpiginous ulcers and nodules of sigmoid. The patient was hospitalized and received 50 mg. oral prednisone daily, 500 mg IV ciprofloxacin every 8 Hrs.and 500 mg IV metronidazole every 8 Hrs. Its is Important to remark that the therapeutical effectiveness of these medications are seen in the new colonoscopy, performed 7 days after the initiating the treatment. We could overcome the nodular stenosis previously described, by finding the ileocecal valve destroyed, by the disease; after passing throughout the valve, we could exam around 30 cm of the terminal ileum finding an active disease. The colon was found to measure 120 CM. long.

tags: Crohn's disease colonoscopy ulcer inflammation

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