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Sexually transmitted infections as a differential diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease
Las infecciones de transmisión sexual como diagnóstico diferencial de la enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal
Belén Martínez Benitoa,
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, Javier P. Gisberta, Lucio Jesús García Fraile Fraileb, Ana Barrios Blandinob, María Chaparroa
a Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-Princesa), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) y Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Madrid, Spain
b Servicio de Medicina Interna, Sección de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Instituto de investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-Princesa), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red-Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBEINFEC), Madrid, Spain
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in the rectum &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>b&#41;&#46; Biopsy showed mildly active chronic UC lesions&#44; cytomegalovirus infection and positive PCR for <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Chlamydia trachomatis</span> serotypes L1 to L3&#46; Treatment with valganciclovir and doxycycline for three weeks&#44; three doses of benzathine penicillin and antiretrovirals was administered&#44; and corticosteroids were withdrawn&#46; After this&#44; the patient&#8217;s clinical condition rapidly improved&#46; Subsequent proctoscopy showed a scarred area in the rectum&#44; while the rest of the mucosa was normal&#46; Due to the initial extent of involvement&#44; the patient was diagnosed with an STI over an underlying left UC&#44; and treatment with mesalazine was maintained&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The second case is a 53-year-old male who underwent colonoscopy for diarrhoea&#44; incontinence and rectal tenesmus&#46; In this case&#44; involvement was limited to the rectum&#44; with erythematous mucosa with isolated aphthae and&#44; at the inner anal margin&#44; deep ulcers with mammillated edges &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>c&#41;&#46; Histology identified chronic proctitis in association with IBD&#44; with moderate activity&#46; Treatment with rectal mesalazine was started&#44; without clinical improvement&#46; The patient reported unprotected anal intercourse&#46; A repeat colonoscopy was performed and several excavated ulcers with raised edges were seen adjacent to the anal canal &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>d&#41;&#46; Histology revealed chronic colitis and a positive PCR for <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">C&#46; trachomatis</span> was detected&#46; After a three-week course of doxycycline&#44; the symptoms subsided&#46; Only several scars in relation to the previous ulcers were observed at the follow-up colonoscopy&#46;</p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In both cases&#44; the identification of atypical lesions and refractoriness to treatment led to questioning the diagnosis of IBD&#46; Eventually&#44; microbiological findings confirmed the diagnosis of STI and targeted antimicrobial treatment resolved the condition&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In recent years&#44; the incidence of STI proctocolitis has increased&#44; especially in people who partake in risky sexual practices&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> The most frequently implicated microorganisms are <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Neisseria gonorrhoeae&#44; C&#46; trachomatis</span> &#40;serotypes L1 to L3 of which cause lymphogranuloma venereum&#41; and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Treponema pallidum</span>&#44; not forgetting the monkeypox virus&#44; which caused a pandemic outbreak in 2022&#46; In these STIs&#44; the endoscopic findings &#40;inflammation or ulcers&#41; and histology &#40;acute inflammation&#41; 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The privacy rights of the subjects have been respected&#46; Permission has been obtained from the subjects for publication of the &#40;anonymous&#41; information and endoscopy images&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0010">Funding</span><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">No financial support has been received for the conduct of the research or for the preparation of the article&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0015">Authors</span><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Bel&#233;n Mart&#237;nez Benito&#58; authorship of the manuscript&#46;</p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Mar&#237;a Chaparro and Javier P&#46; Gisbert&#58; conception of the manuscript&#44; supervision of the drafting of the manuscript&#44; diagnosis and treatment of the patients included&#46;</p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Other authors&#58; 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