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Overview
This disease is also known as 'Colitis Ulcerosa' or 'UC'. There aren't often cardiac complications associated with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, though pericarditis is sometimes reported. Drugs with 5-aminosalicylic acid have been shown to cause pericarditis in inflammatory bowel disease.[1]
Since 1967, it's been estimated more than one in three IBD patients experience pericarditis and/or myocarditis. Those with Crohn's disease seem to be at less risk.
There may also be links between constrictive pericarditis, endocarditis and ulcerative colitis.[2]
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