Case Report

Recurrent Inflammatory Myositis as an Extra-Intestinal Manifestation of Dormant Ulcerative Colitis in a Patient on Long-Term Mesalamine

Table 1

Extra intestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease [2, 4, 5].

CommonLess Common

(1) Musculoskeletal:
Osteoporosis, ankylosing spondylitis, isolated joint involvement such as sacroiliitis
(2) Hepatobiliary:
Primary sclerosing cholangitis and cholangiocarcinoma, cholelithiasis
(3) Ocular:
Uveitis iritis, episcleritis, scleromalacia, retinal vascular disease, keratitis
(4) Skin and mouth:
Reactive lesions - Erythema nodosum, pyoderma gangrenosum, aphthous ulcers, vesiculopustular eruption
(1) Airway and parenchymal lung disease:
Pulmonary fibrosis, bronchitis, interstitial lung disease, necrobiotic nodules, laryngotracheitis
(2) Cardiac:
Pericarditis, myocarditis, endocarditis, heart block, cardiomyopathy
(3) Blood and vascular:
Thrombocytopenic purpura; thrombophlebitis and thromboembolism, arteritis and arterial occlusion, cutaneous vasculitis
(4) Renal and genitourinary tract:
Renal tubular damage, amyloidosis, drug-related nephrotoxicity
(5) Neurologic:
Peripheral neuropathy, myelopathy, vestibular dysfunction, myasthenia gravis.
(6) Miscellaneous:
Colitis-associated carcinoma, Polymyositis