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Pediatria Polska - Polish Journal of Paediatrics
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Case report

Difficulties in establishing etiology of pulmonary changes in a 15-year-old girl with ulcerative colitis

Anna Góra
,
Katarzyna Bąk-Drabik
,
Jolanta Porębska
,
Franciszek Halkiewicz
,
Katarzyna Ziora
,
Edyta Machura

PEDIATRIA POLSKA 92 (2017) 770-777
Online publish date: 2018/03/07
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Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease. In the course of this disease, a number of extraintestinal manifestations have been described. They can occur in almost every organ and system, which allows to consider UC as a systemic disorder. Pulmonary manifestations are rare. Their clinical picture is diverse, often mimicking the separate disease entities of respiratory system. The symptoms presented by patients are non-specific. Diagnosis of pulmonary changes in patients with UC is difficult due to complex relationships between pulmonary diseases and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Below we present a case of a 15-year-old patient with UC and pulmonary disease, in which finding the etiology of pulmonary changes was associated with many difficulies.
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Crohn's disease, Inflammatory bowel disease, Organizing pneumonia