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IBD Diarrhea - What Additional Workup Would You Send?
In this case we definitely need to do one because she has those alarm features of anemia and blood in the stool and elevated inflammatory markers already. So that leads us to our next bucket of workups and that's invasive strategy here. And I make sure that she gets biopsies throughout her colon as well as the terminal ileum because that's going to help us differentiate is she having ulcerative colitis versus Crohn's disease. Remember UC starts in the rectum and then it moves proximally in a continuous pattern and it's circumferential. Some patients just have left side UCs and it's really interesting on colonoscopy. You'll see a clear dem
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