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Collagenous colitis and cimetidine
H D Duncan1, I C Talbot, D B Silk
1Department of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Central Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK.
European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
We report a case of a 62-year-old man who developed watery diarrhoea after starting treatment with cimetidine for dyspepsia. Macroscopically, sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy were normal. Histology revealed features consistent with a diagnosis of collagenous colitis. The diarrhoea is responding to treatment with prednisolone and withdrawal of cimetidine. We conclude that the collagenous colitis may have been drug induced.