Stephan Miehlke, Danila Guagnozzi, Yamile Zabana, Gian E Tontini, Anne-Marie Kanstrup Fiehn, Signe Wildt, Johan Bohr, Ole Bonderup, Gerd Bouma, Mauro D'Amato, Peter J Heiberg Engel, Fernando Fernandez-Banares, Gilles Macaigne, Henrik Hjortswang, Elisabeth Hultgren-Hörnquist, Anastasios Koulaouzidis, Jouzas Kupcinskas, Stefania Landolfi, Giovanni Latella, Alfredo Lucendo, Ivan Lyutakov, Ahmed Madisch, Fernando Magro, Wojciech Marlicz, Emese Mihaly, Lars K Munck, Ann-Elisabeth Ostvik, Árpád V Patai, Plamen Penchev, Karolina Skonieczna-Żydecka, Bas Verhaegh, Andreas Münch
INTRODUCTION: Microscopic colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease characterised by normal or almost normal endoscopic appearance of the colon, chronic watery, nonbloody diarrhoea and distinct histological abnormalities, which identify three histological subtypes, the collagenous colitis, the lymphocytic colitis and the incomplete microscopic colitis. With ongoing uncertainties and new developments in the clinical management of microscopic colitis, there is a need for evidence-based guidelines to improve the medical care of patients suffering from this disorder...
February 22, 2021: United European Gastroenterology Journal