Eosinophilic colitis: differential diagnosis and own observation

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Article presents a clinical case of a female patient suffering from the most common form (mucosal variant) of eosinophilic colitis with colon mucosa damage. The disease manifested with diarrhea, malabsorption, and protein-losing enteropathy. Diagnosis was based on intestinal symptoms, peripheral blood eosinophilia, normal colonic mucosal condition, histological biopsy findings (eosinophilic infiltration of the colonic mucosa) with careful exclusion of other causes of eosinophilia.

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Rafik G. Saifutdinov

Kazan State Medical Academy – branch of Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia; City Clinical Hospital No. 12

Author for correspondence.
Email: rgsbancorp@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2839-100X

MD, professor, head of the Department of hospital and polyclinic therapy

Russian Federation, 420012, Kazan, 36 Butlerova Str.; 20036, Kazan, 7 Lechebnaya Str.

Regina R. Mukhamadieva

Kazan State Medical Academy – branch of Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia

Email: regina-ahunova@mail.ru

PhD in Medical Sciences, associate professor of the Department of hospital and polyclinic therapy

Russian Federation, 420012, Kazan, 36 Butlerova Str.

Tatyana V. Dvoryankina

City Clinical Hospital No. 12

Email: dvorjnkina2016@mail.ru

head of the Department of gastroenterology

Russian Federation, 20036, Kazan, 7 Lechebnaya Str.

Rinat R. Saifutdinov

Kazan State Medical Academy – branch of Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia; City Clinical Hospital No. 12

Email: r_saifutdinov@mail.ru

PhD in Medical Sciences, associate professor of the Department of hospital and polyclinic therapy, head of Department of therapy

Russian Federation, 420012, Kazan, 36 Butlerova Str.; 20036, Kazan, 7 Lechebnaya Str.

Yulia S. Trefilova

Kazan State Medical Academy – branch of Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia

Email: uliyatrefilova@gmail.com

clinical resident of the Department of hospital and polyclinic therapy

Russian Federation, 420012, Kazan, 36 Butlerova Str.

Tatyana V. Saifutdinova

Kazan State Medical Academy – branch of Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia

Email: saifutdinova_t@mail.ru

assistant at the Department of therapy, geriatrics and family medicine

Russian Federation, 420012, Kazan, 36 Butlerova Str.

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