Colitis

Question 1

List some of the types of colitis (CRAMPID)

Answer 1

Collagenous colitis

Radiation colitis

Acute (infective) Colitis

Microscopic colitis

Pseudomembranous colitis

Ischaemic colitis

Diverticular disease

Question 2

What is the appearance of ischaemic colitis?

Answer 2

Pink, smudgy lamina propria

Question 3

What looks like a strawberry and volcano?

Answer 3

Pseudomembranous colitis

Question 4

Pseudomembranous colitis presents with watery diarrhoea.

Answer 4

False
Pseudomembranous colitis presents with severe diarrhoea and bleeding.
Collagenous colitis presents with watery diarrhoea.

Question 5

How is Pseudomembranous colitis treated?

Answer 5

flagyl/vancomycin

Antibiotic induced colitis

Question 6

How does Collagenous colitis present on a microscopic level?

Answer 6

• intraepithelial inflammatory cells
• patchy
• collagen under the epithelium
• thickened basement membrane > 3 microns

Question 7

What is an example of microscopic colitis?

Answer 7

Lymphocytic colitis

Question 8

Radiation colitis can arise due to immunosuppression treatment. How does it present?

Answer 8

• telangiectasia
• bizarre stromal cells
• bizarre vessels

Question 9

What are telangiectasia?

Answer 9

spider naevi

Question 10

Diverticula disease affects the muscle coat.

Answer 10

True