Abstract:Question: A 22-year-old nonsmoking woman with no personal or familial medical history presented a daily productive cough over several months. She was treated with multiple empirical antibiotic therapy with transient improvement. Subsequently, she developed bloody diarrhea, diffuse abdominal pain, and a 5-kg weight loss. A colonoscopy revealed a nonulcerated pancolitis in a continuous fashion. Biopsy specimens revealed distorted crypt architecture with crypt branching and a diffuse inflammatory infiltrate compo… Show more
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