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To: one_less who wrote (9626)	10/15/1998 2:56:00 PM
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Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] PRO/AH> Inflammatory bowel disease, feline to human? - USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: promed-ahead@usa.healthnet.org Subject: PRO/AH> Inflammatory bowel disease, feline to human? - USA From: Michael M Phillips <barmike@erols.com> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 18:59:59 -0500 Reply-To: promed@usa.healthnet.org Sender: owner-promed-ahead@usa.healthnet.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE, FELINE TO HUMAN? - USA ================================================== Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 17:52:40 -0500 (EST) From: Michael M Phillips <barmike@erols.com> I am a gastroenterologist practicing in Washington DC, and have seen a woman without prior history of bowel disease develop idiopathic IBD shortly after her house cat was diagnosed as having IBD. The cat's illness was characterized by vomiting (which the patient cleaned up, without wearing gloves etc). The cat was gastroscoped by the veterinarian, and biopsies of the stomach and duodenum revealed intense infiltration of lymphocytes and monocytes. No cultures were done on the cat but he has responded to predinsone. The human developed bloody diarrhea shortly after the cat's illness began. Cultures for enteric pathogens, ova and parasites and _C. difficile_ toxin were negative. The patients was treated with Cipro 500mg BID but failed to improve. A sigmoidoscopy revealed findings suggestive of IBD, and biopsies revealed crypt abscesses and intense infiltration of lymphocytes and monocytes. Flagyl 250 mg QID failed to improve the symptoms, and corticosteroids have been started. The pathology appears to be similar [to the cat's] which certainly suggests that an infectious agent could be the cause of the [the illness of both the] cat and his owner. Anyone deal with similar situations or have ideas as to the etiology? -- Michael M Phillips, MD <barmike@erols.com> ................................................................jw -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prev by Date: PRO> Yellow fever mistaken for dengue: implications for Asia Next by Date: PRO/EDR> Legionellosis - USA (Michigan/Virginia) (02) Prev by thread: PRO/EDR> Legionellosis - USA (Michigan/Virginia) (02) Next by thread: PRO> Yellow fever mistaken for dengue: implications for Asia Index(es): Main Thread