The heart in inflammatory bowel disease

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been associated with the development of pericarditis and or myocarditis in one third of IBD patients. Treatement with drugs containing 5-aminosalicylic acid have been associated with the development of pericarditis in inflammatory bowel disease.^[1] Those with Crohn’s disease seem to be at a lower risk than ulcerative colitis. Ulcerative colitis may also be associated with endocarditis as well.^[2] The presence of pericarditis may predate the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease.

References

↑ Tunc B, Filik L, Ulker A, Parlak E (2005). “Two cases of pericarditis associated with inflammatory bowel disease”. Acta Medica (Hradec Kralove). 48 (1): 43–4. PMID 16080383.
↑ Lichtenstein G R, The Clinician’s Guide to Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 2003, ISBN 1556425546

Overview