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Our specialist surgeons are often involved in the diagnosis and surgical management of colitis, working in cooperation with a gastroenterologist.
Colitis is inflammation of the colon. Types of colitis include infective colitis, or that due to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). IBD includes Crohn’s disease that can affect any part of the colon, often with healthy intervening bowel, and not always involving the rectum. On the other hand, Ulcerative Colitis is an autoimmune colitis that only affects the large bowel. Eosinophilic colitis and microscopic colitis, are milder, often self-limiting colitis that probably have an autoimmune mechanism.