Ulcerative Colitis: What are its symptoms and causes?
The ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory disease, chronic intermittent and the large intestine (colon) and rectum, characterized by diarrheal stools accompanied by mucus or blood, associated with abdominal pain and other systemic symptoms. This disease is also called idiopathic chronic ulcerative colitis.
The ulcerative colitis is part of inflammatory diseases of the intestine (IBD), Crohn's disease where and indeterminate colitis are also included, these being different for areas of the affected intestine and that present clinical manifestations.
