title: Pyoderma gangrenosum in inflammatory bowel disease: the experience at Mater Health Services' Adult Hospital 1998-2009.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a neutrophilic dermatosis often associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The literature has suggested that PG-IBD is usually associated with ulcerative colitis.
  
  
  METHODS
  We reviewed the PG-IBD cases at the Mater Health Services' Adult Hospital in Brisbane between 1998 and 2009 through assessment of a comprehensive web database of IBD patients and verification of chart information of PG-IBD cases.
  
  
  RESULTS
  PG-IBD at Mater was associated with clinically mild colonic IBD, with erythema nodosum, and with female sex. All PG-IBD responded eventually to increased immunomodulatory therapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We discuss why PG-IBD is associated with clinically mild colonic IBD be it ulcerative colitis, Crohn's or indeterminate colitis.
authors: The University of Queensland, Australia. margit.polcz@gmail.com
authors: Margit
authors: M
authors: Polcz
authors: Jennie
authors: J
authors: Gu
authors: Timothy
authors: T
authors: Florin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000150:complications; D003524:Cyclosporins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006854:Hydrocortisone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008297:Male; D015122:Mercaptopurine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000150:complications*; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000302:isolation & purification; D017511:Pyoderma Gangrenosum / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000150:complications*
chemical_list: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D003524:Cyclosporins; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents; D015122:Mercaptopurine; D006854:Hydrocortisone