Airway involvement in ulcerative colitis.
Two patients with ulcerative colitis developed progressive obstructive pulmonary disease. In one, the abnormality was a sclerosing peribronchiolitis confined to small airways, while the other demonstrated a large airway fibrotic obliterative bronchitis. A review of airway involvement in ulcerative colitis and a discussion of the possible similarity to another extraintestinal manifestation of ulcerative colitis, sclerosing cholangitis, are presented.
D000328:Adult; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests