Toxic megacolon differential diagnosis
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Farima Kahe M.D. [2]
Overview
- Toxic megacolon must be differentiated from other diseases that cause abdominal pain, fever,diarrhea such as acute appendicitis, acute diverticulitis, inflammatory bowel disease, whipple's disease, tropical sprue, infective colitis, viral hepatitis (hepatitis A and hepatitis E), liver abscess, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, mesenteric ischemia, and acute ischemic colitis.
Differentiating Toxic Megacolon from other Diseases
- Toxic megacolon must be differentiated from other diseases that cause abdominal pain, fever,diarrhea such as acute appendicitis, acute diverticulitis, inflammatory bowel disease, whipple's disease, tropical sprue, infective colitis, viral hepatitis (hepatitis A and hepatitis E), liver abscess, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, mesenteric ischemia, and acute ischemic colitis.