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HENNESSEY-CALDERON, Diana Carolina; SEVERICHE-BUENO, Diego Fernando  y  SEVERICHE-HERNANDEZ, Diego León. Eosinophilic colitis as a cause of chronic diarrhea. Acta Med Colomb [online]. 2019, vol.44, n.1, pp.47-50.  Epub 13-Jun-2019. ISSN 0120-2448.

Eosinophilic colitis is a rare and idiopathic disease characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the colon and is part of the spectrum of eosinophilic gastroenteritis. This entity has nonspecific symptoms and currently there are no clinical studies, so the scientific evidence is based on case series or isolated reports. This pathology requires an adequate diagnostic approach to rule out other causes of eosinophilia in the colon, in order to offer a directed and specialized pharmacological and non-pharmacological management to achieve remission of the disease, so that to offer timely care it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of those young patients with chronic diarrhea in order to improve the diagnostic approach and promote performance of clinical studies that improve the quality of current scientific evidence. This is the first case with exclusive involvement of the colon reported in Colombia of a woman with a history of atopic diseases. (Acta Med Colom 2019; 44: 47-50)

Palabras clave : eosinophilic gastroenteritis; eosinophilic colitis; diarrhea; eosinophilia; food intolerance.

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