CT 1.1 IBD

Question 1

What are the characteristics of UC

Answer 1

Begins in the rectum and never occurs past the ileocecal valve. It is continuous

Disease is limited to mucosa and submucosa layers of the bowel wall

There is distorted crypt architecture and crypt abscesses form

Slight female predominance

Associated with primary sclerosing cholangitis

Question 2

What investigations for IBD

Answer 2

Stool microscopy or culture to rule out t other things like salmonella

Faecal calprotectin

Colonoscopy