Enterocolitis

Enterocolitis (or “coloenteritis”) is an inflammation of the colon and small intestine.^[1] However, most conditions are categorfized as one or the other of the following:

• Enteritis is the inflammation of the small intestine
• Colitis is inflammation of the large intestine, especially the colon

Specific types of enterocolitis include:

• necrotizing enterocolitis (most common in premature infants)
• autistic enterocolitis (a controversial entity of bowel disease in autistic children)
• pseudomembranous enterocolitis (also called “Pseudomembranous colitis“)

• Ipilimumab
• Ixabepilone
• Tetracyclines (Idarubicin hydrochloride)

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