Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río (May 2018)
Ulcerative Colitis a look inside
Abstract
Introduction: ulcerative colitis is a chronic recurrent disease of the gastrointestinal tract, it evolves due to relapses, and together with Crohn’s disease constitutes an inflammatory intestinal disease, it shows an increase in its incidence in most reports during the last decade and Cuba is not an exception. Objective: to characterize this disease clinical-endoscopic and histologically. Method: descriptive and retrospective research of patients diagnosed with histological colitis. Variables such as: age, sex, histology, result of lower digestive endoscopy, clinical manifestations, most frequent localization and treatment. The frequency distribution analysis was used. Results: a predominance of the disease was shown in the third and fourth decade of life in 29.7 % of the patients, predominant symptom was diarrhea, 29 had dysplasia, left colitis was the most frequent form of extension of ulcerative colitis in its moderate variety in 39.2%, with the use of 5-ASA as a fundamental treatment in 72.9% of cases. Conclusions: providing the early diagnosis of the clinical stage in which the patient can be found, as well as the early endoscopic findings, will allow a better control of the process, therefore the objectives of treatment in ulcerative colitis are: to improve the general well-being of the patient, to optimize quality of life, treat acute illness.
