title: [Short term prognosis of ulcerative colitis (author's transl)].
abstract: The authors analyse the short-term prognosis of ulcerative colitis from a series of 65 patients followed during ten years and treated with the same attitude. The results are compared to those of the most important published, from which they differ just a little. The medical treatment is effective in 84,6% of cases. The mortality of first attack is 6,1%. Only 1,4% of patients in our series are colectomised. It seems that the short-term prognosis has been slightly better during the last few years perhaps because of improvement in management and appearance of corticosteroids and/or salazosulfapyridine. The factors of bad prognosis in a first attack are its severity, its extension to the whole colon, its beginning after 60 years.
mesh_terms: D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D003082:Colectomy; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D013427:Sulfapyridine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones; D013427:Sulfapyridine
vernacular_title: Pronostic a court terme de la recto-colite hémorragique.