Year: 2025 | Month: October-December | Volume: 10 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 213-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijshr.20250430
Rare Case report on Crohn’s Disease evolving into Ulcerative Colitis in North India
Tanya1, Aryan Kler2, Sunil Singh Bains3
1Medical Officer, MBBS, AAC Clinic, Pathankot, Punjab, India
2Medical Officer, MBBS, AAC Clinic, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
3House Surgeon. MBBS, Subdivisional Hospital, Nangal, Punjab, India
Corresponding Author: Dr. Sunil Singh Bains
ABSTRACT
Crohn’s disease is one type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the other being ulcerative colitis. Their clinical presentation is based on the anatomical region involved and the histology. IBD was contemplated as a western disease, but now the number of cases being reported in India are increasing. As per the literature review cases on ulcerative colitis turning into Crohn’s are reported but to our knowledge there is hardly any case of Crohn’s being evolved into ulcerative colitis, especially in North India. In this case study, we present a 28-year-old male diagnosed and being treated for Crohn’s disease. Despite the adequate treatment the patient was suffering from relapses and then four years later it was diagnosed that the Crohn’s had evolved into ulcerative type. Therefore, this case focuses on keeping a high degree of suspicion of conversion of either type of IBD as the disease progresses over time.
Keywords: Autoimmune, Crohn’s, Ulcerative, IBD, Colonoscopy, Colitis.