Colitis
| Classification according to ICD-10 | |
|---|---|
| A09.- | Other gastroenteritis and colitis of infectious and unspecified origin |
| K50-K52 | Non-infectious enteritis and colitis |
| K55.- | Vascular diseases of the intestine |
| ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019) | |
Colitis (also colitis , plural: colitis or colitis) is a generic term in medicine for various acute or chronic inflammations of the large intestine or colon ( colon ), which are usually associated with diarrhea .
Which includes:
- Acute inflammatory bowel disease
- Enterohemorrhagic Colitis
- Persistent ileitis ( pseudocrohn )
- Pseudomembranous colitis ; see antibiotic -associated colitis and antibiotic-associated hemorrhagic colitis
- Sigmoiditis (inflammation of the sigmoid colon)
- Radiation colitis
- Inflammatory bowel disease , autoimmune mediated colitis
- Ischemic colitis
