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[Ulcerative colitis and schizophrenia: fortuitous association or etiopathogenic link?]
R Ennaifer1, R Rafrafi, L Mouelhi
1Service de Gastro-entirologie, Hôpital Charles Nicolle, Tunis, Tunisie.
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.
Aim:
Report a new case of ulcerative colitis associated topsychiatric disorder.
Case-Report:
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.
Conclusion:
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.
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