Ulcerative Colitis Rapid Review for Nursing

Ulcerative Colitis

Patient will be 15 – 30 years old
Complaining of bloody diarrhea, crampy abdominal pain, and tenesmus
Colonoscopy will show continuous mucosal inflammation always involving the rectum
Treatment is sulfasalazine, surgery is curative
Complications: Toxic megacolon, ↑ colon cancer risk