Active idiopathic ulcerative colitis in a patient with ongoing HIV-related immunodepression.
It is suspected that immune mechanisms are important in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis. The following is a case report of a patient with human immunodeficiency virus-related immunodeficiency whose ulcerative colitis ran a course independent of the depression of his peripheral CD4 cells. Thus, peripheral CD4 cells may have little role in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis.
Division of Gastroenterology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance.
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D000328:Adult; D015496:CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D008297:Male