CLINICAL COURSE OF SEVERE COLITIS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN CROHN'S DISEASE AND ULCERATIVE COLITIS.
Few data are available about the clinical course of severe colonic Crohns disease (CD). The aim of this study is to describe the clinical course of severe Crohns colitis in a patient cohort with isolated colonic or ileocolonic CD, and to compare it with the clinical course of patients with severe ulcerative colitis (UC). Thirty-four patients with severe Crohns colitis were prospectively identified in our cohort of 593 consecutive hospitalized patients through evaluation of the Crohns Disease Activity Index score and the Harvey-Bradshaw Index. One hundred sixty-nine patients with severe ulcerative colitis were prospectively identified in our cohort of 449 consecutive hospitalized patient…