title: [Ulcerative colitis and schizophrenia: fortuitous association or etiopathogenic link?].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease with multiple pathogenic factors. Psychiatric disorder have frequently been associated to ulcerative colitis, the most frequent being depression and anxiety, whereas schizophrenia is unusual.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Report a new case of ulcerative colitis associated topsychiatric disorder.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report the case of a 42-year-old woman with ulcerative colitis associated with schizophrenia. Although the two diagnoses were concomitant, on questioning, she revealed that digestive symptoms began before psychiatric disorders.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Few cases of schizophrenia associated with ulcerative colitis have been reported in the literature. We discuss epidemiological, etiopathogenic and therapeutic links between the two diseases.
authors.affiliation: Service de Gastro-entirologie, Hôpital Charles Nicolle, Tunis, Tunisie.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ennaifer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rafrafi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mouelhi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Houissa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bouzaidi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Trabelsi
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: El Hechmi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Najjar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications*