CLINICAL PATHOLOGY. Diagnosis of Colitis: Making the Initial Diagnosis. Case History. Clinical Evaluation of New Onset Colitis
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1 CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY 2007;5: CLINICAL PATHOLOGY Diagnosis of Colitis: Making the Initial Diagnosis MARIA T. ABREU* and NOAM HARPAZ*, *Division of Gastroenterology and the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, and Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai, New York, New York The evaluation of patients with colitis of recent onset is a relatively common clinical challenge. The main considerations are infectious colitides, idiopathic IBD, ie, ulcerative and Crohn s colitis, and colonic ischemia. An initial risk assessment on the basis of such factors as concurrent symptoms in contacts, travel history, medications, and human immunodeficiency virus risk factors should be followed by a thorough clinical history, physical examination, stool studies, blood tests, and, in selected cases, endoscopic examination and serologic tests. Biopsies can be decisive in distinguishing among the different types of acute colitis and might help identify specific etiologies. The diagnostic yield of biopsies is maximized by appropriate sampling of the colonic mucosa and by sharing the clinical and endoscopic findings with the pathologist, eg, via a copy of the endoscopy report. Case History A 30-year-old woman presented with non-bloody diarrhea, crampy lower abdominal pain, and headache of 10 days duration unrelieved by bismuth salicylate. Blood and mucus per rectum became apparent 5 days after symptom onset. The symptoms had begun on return from an overseas trip during which she had consumed unpasteurized honey. She had lost 5 pounds, but a physical examination was unremarkable. There were no significant medical conditions, human immunodeficiency virus risk factors, or family history of IBD. Stool studies were negative for pathogens and Clostridium difficile toxin. A flexible sigmoidoscopy 2 weeks after symptom onset revealed diffuse erythema, loss of vascular markings, friability, and inflammatory exudates extending beyond the limits of examination (Figure 1A). A biopsy showed acute colitis of infectious type (Figure 1B). Despite an initial response to ciprofloxacin 500 mg by mouth twice a day, her cramps and diarrhea recurred a week later. Stool samples remained culture negative but were now positive for C difficile toxin A. A repeat flexible sigmoidoscopy revealed scattered whitish pseudomembranes throughout the left colon (Figure 2A), and biopsies confirmed pseudomembranous colitis and no evidence of IBD (Figure 2B). Treatment with metronidazole 500 mg by mouth 3 times daily for 2 weeks resulted in gradual and complete resolution. Clinical Evaluation of New Onset Colitis Clinicians evaluating a patient with new onset colitis should first consider whether the colitis is due to a specific agent, eg, infectious, environmental, or a drug, or to idiopathic IBD. A thorough history should include a review of risk factors such as travel, antibiotic exposure, use of NSAIDs or other new drugs. Infectious colitis is responsible for the majority of cases of new onset diarrhea. Travelers are at particular risk of bacterial enterocolitis such as Campylobacter, including ciprofloxacin-resistant strains currently most common in Spain and Southeast Asia. C difficile colitis associated with hospitalization or antibiotic exposure is currently epidemic in North America. Nonetheless, a clear history of such exposure cannot always be elicited. The severity of the C difficile problem has been compounded by the emergence of a virulent strain characterized by deletion of the tcdt gene, which normally down-regulates the production of toxins A and B. 1,2 Currently, fluoroquinolones are the most common associated antibiotics. In patients with new onset colitis, C difficile should not be excluded until 3 sets of negative toxin assays have been reported, especially if the testing facility does not test for both toxins. Ischemic colitis must be considered in older patients with cardiovascular disease and in younger patients with specific risk factors such as use of various drugs (oral contraceptives, nasal decongestants, alosetron for treatment of irritable bowel syndrome, and cocaine, to name a few), heavy exercise, and coagulation disorders. Once suspected on clinical grounds, the diagnosis can usually be confirmed by endoscopy with biopsies. Once other causes of colitis have been ruled out, IBD such as Crohn s disease and ulcerative colitis should be considered. 1 A recent study has reported that patients with a history of bacterial gastroenteritis carry a 2.4-fold risk of developing IBD and a 4.1-fold risk during the first year. 2 Patients with colitis associated with IBD typically give a history of symptoms of several weeks duration. Even those with more recent onset will often relate rectal bleeding that had been attributed to hemorrhoids. Weight loss might be noted, as well as constitutional symptoms of fatigue, low-grade fevers, and night sweats; however, these are not specific for IBD unless protracted. The physical examination should evaluate the sclera for icterus and episcleritis and the buccal mucosa for volume status and aphthous stomatitis or other possible oral manifestations of inflammatory bowel. 3 Skin lesions such as erythema nodosum or pyoderma gangrenosum would support a diagnosis of idiopathic IBD. The abdominal examination might reveal a Abbreviations used in this paper: CMV, cytomegalovirus by the AGA Institute /07/$32.00 doi: /j.cgh
2 296 ABREU AND HARPAZ CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY Vol. 5, No. 3 right lower quadrant mass suggesting Crohn s disease, but patients with colitis will more often have a normal examination or left-sided tenderness. In thin patients, a thickened left colon might be palpable. Up to 20% of patients with Crohn s disease have perianal fistulas, 4 and 50% have other perianal complications, 5 and their prevalence is even higher among patients with isolated Crohn s colitis. Careful perianal examination might reveal large edematous tags or a sentinel tag associated with an anal fissure, and rectal examination might reveal an anal stricture. Heme-positive stool is not helpful in distinguishing IBD from infectious colitis. Routine laboratory tests focus on complications related to systemic inflammation and chronic blood loss. Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rates and C-reactive protein levels occur in patients with infections and with idiopathic IBD. However, abnormalities in hemoglobin levels and mean corpuscular volume favor IBD, in which iron deficiency anemia and mixed anemia are common manifestations. The albumin level might be low in both infectious colitis and IBD, but more commonly in the latter. Early endoscopy is recommended in patients with colitis of new onset, especially when stool cultures are negative. Empirical treatment with antibiotics such as fluoroquinolones should be avoided when the risk of bacterial infection is low, and before culture results have returned. The potential adverse consequences include C difficile colitis, as described in the present case, and partial healing, either of which might confound the endoscopic and clinical picture. Figure 1. (A) Patient s endoscopic findings characterized by diffuse superficial ulcerations and exudates. (B) Biopsy revealing typical pattern of acute infectious colitis characterized by edema and infiltration by neutrophils. The crypts are separated from one another and from the muscularis mucosae by edema, but their architecture is preserved, and there is no significant increase in lymphocytes and plasma cells. Figure 2. (A) Pseudomembranous colitis is evident on repeat endoscopy. (B) Biopsy showing superficial necrosis, dilated crypts, and eruptive inflammatory exudates.
3 March 2007 INITIAL DIAGNOSIS OF COLITIS 297 While performing the initial endoscopic procedure, usually a flexible sigmoidoscopy, the gastroenterologist should observe and record the extent of inflammation and the nature of the inflammatory changes. 6 Is the rectum involved? Does the inflammation extend beyond the reach of the sigmoidoscope? Is it continuous? Are there punched out, stellate, or aphthous ulcers, or pinpoint granular mucosa? Are pseudomembranes present? All observations should be recorded in descriptive terms, because endoscopic findings are rarely if ever pathognomonic. To obtain adequate representative tissue, 4 biopsies should be sampled from each inflamed segment and an equal number from each uninflamed segment within reach. If ulcerations are extensive, some of the biopsies should sample areas that are not completely denuded to evaluate the residual crypt epithelial architecture. Fresh samples are desirable for C difficile toxin assays and for examination for ova and parasites. Our practice is to aspirate stool directly from the colon and forward it promptly to the clinical laboratory. Serologic markers have been developed as a means to help diagnose IBD and to distinguish ulcerative colitis from Crohn s disease. The combination of positive perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies and negative antibodies to oligomannans in yeast, antibodies to the outer membrane porin of Escherichia coli, and antibodies to flagellin has a high positive predictive value for ulcerative colitis, whereas the converse results are associated with Crohn s disease. 7 9 However, some patients with Crohn s colitis are positive for perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies, reducing the value of the test in this setting. 10 Importantly, these serologies are negative in patients with infectious colitis; the sole exception is antibody to flagellin, which is present in up to 8% of healthy controls (presumably a result of prior infection with flagellated pathogenics). 11 In patients with isolated colitis as in the present case, a positive serologic marker would be helpful because it would support a diagnosis of idiopathic IBD rather than infectious colitis. Additional tests will continue to improve the diagnostic capabilities of noninvasive methods to distinguish IBD from other entities. Finally, fecal markers such as lactoferrin and calprotectin are present in patients with idiopathic IBD. Although these have quite good sensitivity and specificity for distinguishing irritable bowel syndrome from IBD, they are not adequate for distinguishing IBD from infectious colitis. 12 Endoscopy and Biopsy Guidelines Patients whose symptoms have not improved within 1 week should undergo a flexible sigmoidoscopy. Use of a pediatric colonoscope might allow one to visualize mucosa normally outside of the reach of the sigmoidoscope if the patient can tolerate it. A Fleet enema before sigmoidoscopy improves visualization of the mucosa but might lower the yield from stool cultures sent directly from stool collected into a trap. If symptoms persist and the sigmoidoscopy reveals no abnormality, a colonoscopy should be performed. Biopsies can be decisive in achieving a specific diagnosis, but several guidelines and precautions should be observed to maximize their diagnostic yield. First, as is true for any other medical consultation, it is of the utmost importance for the pathologist to have access to the patient s clinical history and endoscopic findings. An excellent source is the endoscopy report, a copy of which should be attached to the pathology requisition. Copies of endoscopic images are helpful in selected cases, ie, when unusual endoscopic changes are encountered. Information regarding the type of bowel preparation and any prescription or over-the-counter drug use should be provided, because a host of agents can affect the histology and confound the evaluation. Among many examples are sodium phosphate purgatives, which can result in focal inflammation or aphthous lesions, NSAIDs, which can produce ischemic changes, and ranitidine, which can elicit intraepithelial lymphocytosis mimicking lymphocytic colitis. In patients whose diarrhea results in dehydration or arrhythmias, hypoperfusion of the colon might result in ischemic changes superimposed on the underlying pathology of the colitis. This will result in an erroneous interpretation if the clinician has withheld this information. Multiple biopsies should be sampled from each region examined; the main objective is to achieve a representative sampling of regional and local variations that naturally occur in various inflammatory disorders. Another objective is to compensate for the small dimensions of conventional forceps biopsies, for lost detail caused by crush and electrocautery artifacts, and for random variations in specimen orientation, all of which can reduce the likelihood of detecting diagnostic features. In most cases, 4 quadrant biopsies of affected and unaffected areas will suffice. Certain colitides such as pseudomembranous colitis, Crohn s disease, and resolving infectious colitis might be exquisitely patchy and are therefore apt to yield false-negative results if inadequately sampled. Random specimens from the same anatomic segment might be in a single specimen container, but any grossly distinctive areas should be sampled separately. The source of each container should always be identified by anatomic segment, because the morphology of normal mucosa varies with anatomic location. Sampling should include endoscopically normal mucosa, because significant and potentially important microscopic changes might be found even when unsuspected endoscopically. 13 Finally, supplemental ( special ) stains have a very limited role in evaluating acute colitides encountered in routine practice. Decisions regarding their use are best made after the pathologist has been apprised of any particular pathogens or disease entities that are suspected on clinical grounds and has evaluated the routine hematoxylin-eosin slides. Examples include immunoperoxidase staining for cytomegalovirus (CMV), especially when inclusion bodies are scarce or histologically atypical, the Congo red stain for amyloidosis, an acid-fast stain for mycobacterial infections, the Gram stain for enteroadherent coliform infections, and silver stains for opportunistic fungi. Normal Histology and Anatomic Variations Conventional forceps biopsies of the colon and rectum sample the entire lamina propria, all or part of the muscularis mucosae, and sometimes the superficial submucosa. Diagnostic yield is maximized by orienting the sample luminal side up on an adherent matrix such as an absorbable gelatin sponge to facilitate on-edge sectioning by the laboratory and then fixing the sample promptly in buffered formalin solution. 14
4 298 ABREU AND HARPAZ CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY Vol. 5, No. 3 Histologically, normal crypts present as uniform structures with tubular profiles if the mucosa is well-oriented but otherwise with elliptical or circular profiles. They are separated by a half crypt diameter or less and surrounded by a nearly transparent lamina propria. The upper half of the lamina propria contains a loose collection of mononuclear inflammatory cells, mainly plasma cells and lymphocytes, which dissipate toward the base of the mucosa. The resulting gradient is an important diagnostic feature but may be lost in poorly oriented biopsies. The epithelium lining the crypts and surface, at least at the light microscopic level, is dominated by columnar (absorptive) and goblet cells accompanied by small numbers of endocrine and Paneth s cells. The histology of the mucosa varies with anatomic location. Compared with the rest of the colon, the normal cecal mucosa is characterized by widely spaced crypts and a relative abundance of mononuclear inflammatory cells. Biopsies from this location might therefore be regarded as abnormal if their origin is unknown. Paneth s cells are normally limited to the ascending colon, but they might occur throughout the colon and rectum in ulcerative colitis and other chronic inflammatory states. Biopsies of the sigmoid might show nonspecific or IBDlike inflammation if sampled from the vicinity of diverticula. The rectal mucosa frequently contains mucin-laden macrophages that intervene between the crypt bases and the muscularis mucosae, simulating the crypt shortfall of chronic IBD (Figure 3A). Likewise, the mucosa approaching the anorectal junction is distorted and IBD-like. It follows that the common but unnecessary practices of submitting undesignated biopsy specimens ( colon biopsy ) and combining biopsies from different locations in a single container fall short of the best standards of care. Acute Infectious Colitis Conventional cases of acute or self-limited infectious colitis are characterized by an abrupt onset of diarrheal and associated symptoms and an overall duration of 10 days 3 weeks followed by permanent clinical resolution. They might be caused by a wide variety of bacterial pathogens including Campylobacter jejuni, E coli, Salmonella, and Shigella species and C difficile, as well as a host of viruses, but cultures and other laboratory techniques yield specific diagnoses in less than half of cases. Mucosal biopsies of the large intestine can afford a valuable adjunct to clinical and laboratory evaluation by excluding other disorders with similar clinical presentations, such as an initial attack of IBD or colonic ischemia, and by identifying or suggesting specific pathogens. 15 The conventional self-limited bacterial and viral colitides have similar histologic features. Their distinction as a group from other entities is best achieved when biopsies are taken during the first few days after symptom onset. 16 At this stage the mucosa is characterized by (1) edema; (2) neutrophil infiltration of the lamina propria, surface epithelium, and crypts, including distended crypt abscesses with flat epithelial lining; (3) reduced goblet cell mucin; (4) retention of the architectural features of parallel tubular crypts; and (5) little or no increase in the density or distribution of mononuclear inflammatory cells that are normally present in the upper regions of the colonic mucosa (Figure 1B). Clinical and histologic remission usually takes place in parallel toward the end of the first week and into the second. Histologically, one sees resolution of the edema, gradual dissipation of the neutrophil infiltrates, and signs of epithelial regeneration such as increased mitotic activity, enlarged nuclei, prominent nucleoli, and persistent mucin depletion. As the intensity of acute inflammation subsides, residual crypt inflammation might assume a patchy distribution, referred to as focal active colitis, in which scattered crypts continue to harbor cryptitis while others have normalized (Figure 3B). On complete clinical resolution, the mucosa is left with little or no microscopic residua. Initial Attack of Inflammatory Bowel Disease By contrast with infectious colitis, the mucosa during the early symptomatic stages of IBD evinces many of the same characteristics as long-standing disease, evidently reflecting the cumulative effects of preclinical inflammation of indeterminate duration. Biopsies taken even within a few days of a first bout of bloody diarrhea show expansion of the lamina propria and separation of the crypts by a dense, full-thickness inflammatory infiltrate dominated by plasma cells, lymphocytes, histiocytes, and eosinophils in varying proportions (Figure 3C). By comparison, neutrophils are relatively sparse within the lamina propria, concentrating instead within the crypts in the form of cryptitis and crypt abscesses, in the surface epithelium, and adjacent to capillaries. Although crypt abscesses are commonplace, the lining epithelial cells are more apt to be columnar or cuboidal than those of infectious colitis, and Paneth s cells might be found beyond their normal location in the ascending colon. However, crypt branching and disarray, considered hallmarks of chronic IBD, commonly develop gradually during the course of subsequent months Figure 3. (A) Normal rectal mucosa with muciphages separating the crypt bases from the muscularis mucosae. This should not be interpreted as postinflammatory crypt shortfall as seen in IBD. (B) Focal active colitis. This nonspecific pattern occurs in resolving infectious colitis, Crohn s disease, and after phosphosoda administration among other conditions. (C) Ulcerative colitis of recent onset characterized by full-thickness lymphoplasmacytic infiltrates, crypt shortfall, and selective neutrophil infiltration of the crypts. Focal branching of a crypt is noted in the lower right, but the degree of crypt disarray often seen in chronic IBD is not evident. (D) Chronic infectious colitis. In addition to mild edema and dense neutrophil infiltration, the lamina propria also contains mononuclear inflammatory cells surrounding the crypt bases. (E) Acute colonic ischemia. The crypts are devoid of goblet cells and taper toward the surface. The lamina propria is densely eosinophilic, and neutrophils are less abundant than in infections. (F) Colitis associated with E coli O157:H7. The edema, neutrophil infiltrates, and preserved crypt architecture resemble the findings in conventional acute infectious colitis. However, the diagnosis was suggested by the presence of an inflammatory pseudomembrane and evidence of ischemia in an adjoining biopsy. (G) CMV inclusion body in biopsy of a patient with ulcerative colitis on an immunosuppressive regimen. (Inset) High magnification.
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6 300 ABREU AND HARPAZ CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY Vol. 5, No. 3 Prolonged Infectious Colitis Versus Inflammatory Bowel Disease Infections that persist beyond 2 3 weeks might gradually evolve histologic features that overlap with those of early IBD, resulting in diagnostic ambiguity just when persistent symptoms begin to elicit clinical concerns for IBD. One common pattern in chronic infections is focal active colitis, which occurs in persistent infections and Crohn s colitis as well as in other unrelated disorders. Another pattern is basal lymphoplasmacytosis resulting from increased density and downward expansion of the mononuclear inflammatory cell population, mimicking the basal lymphoplasmacytosis of IBD (Figure 3D). This expansion is typically less dense, uniform, and diffuse than in ulcerative colitis, but it is well within the range of findings in Crohn s disease. Distortion of the crypt architecture and Paneth s cell metaplasia are uncommon even in prolonged infectious colitis, and the appearance of either favors IBD. In addition, the dichotomous patterns of neutrophil infiltration that characterize acute infectious colitis and IBD, ie, nonselective (lamina propria and epithelium) in infectious colitis versus epitheliotropic in IBD, remain useful discriminating criteria in the subacute and chronic settings as well. Acute Colonic Ischemia Acute colonic ischemia is usually microscopically distinctive, but its distribution might be patchy at both the gross and microscopic levels. Diagnostic yield is therefore optimized by submitting multiple biopsy samples from affected areas. Histologically, mild degrees of ischemia preferentially affect the superficial mucosa, whereas severe ischemia leads to progressively deeper changes. The earliest findings reflect injury to the capillary endothelial cells, ie, superficial capillary microthrombi or extravasation of red cells and plasma protein into the lamina propria, and are accompanied by near disappearance of goblet cells. The crypts assume shrunken, microcystic profiles with diameters tapering from the base to the surface, and the lamina propria takes on a characteristic dense hyaline eosinophilia, a feature that is often mistaken for fibrosis (Figure 3E). Inflammatory cells are usually sparse at this stage. Ultimately the mucosa undergoes coagulative necrosis of increasing depth accompanied by erosions and acute inflammatory pseudomembranes, which might simulate pseudomembranous colitis. 18 Although biopsies are informative in distinguishing ischemia from other disorders, they are of limited value in assessing the severity of ischemia or ruling out colonic infarction. Patient management therefore will depend primarily on the clinical assessment. C difficile Colitis Pseudomembranous colitis associated with C difficile colitis presents relatively distinctive histologic findings consisting of patchy necrosis of the superficial lamina propria, massive crypt dilatation, and volcano-like exudates of mucus, fibrin, and streaming neutrophils arranged in single file (Figure 2B). Endoscopic sampling of the pseudomembranes is important, because biopsies of the intervening mucosa will appear normal or resemble conventional acute infection. A relatively common problem is detachment of pseudomembranes from the mucosa during processing of biopsies, which can result in their being overlooked by the pathologist. This error can be avoided if the pathologist is suitably apprised of the endoscopic findings. Persistent C difficile colitis might result in severe and extensive mucosal injury, the cumulative manifestations of which might include significant architectural disarray closely mimicking chronic IBD. E coli O157:H7 Colitis Enterohemorrhagic colitis caused by E coli O157:H7 presents endoscopically with erythema, friability, longitudinal ulcers, and pseudomembranes, but these are usually more prominent in the right colon than in the left. The histologic features combine the motifs of acute infectious colitis, pseudomembranous colitis, and ischemia (Figure 3F), manifesting the combined effects of toxin-mediated injury to both the epithelial and endothelial cells. 19 Diagnostic yield is enhanced by taking multiple biopsies, especially from the right colon if possible, and conveying the endoscopic picture and any suspicion of a diarrheal outbreak to the pathologist. Cytomegalovirus Colitis Although usually encountered in immunocompromised individuals, including IBD patients on immunosuppressive therapies, CMV colitis can occur in otherwise healthy persons and in untreated IBD patients. It manifests grossly as discrete ulcerations of the cecum and ascending colon or, less commonly, as a segmental colitis, pancolitis, or flare-up of underlying IBD. Biopsies of ulcerated or intact mucosa reveal cytomegalic epithelial, endothelial, or mesenchymal cells of various types containing basophilic nuclear and eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (Figure 3G). The inclusions might be histologically atypical or extremely sparse, requiring a high index of suspicion and use of immunohistochemical staining for confirmation. Conclusions Evaluation of the patient with new onset colitis entails a thorough clinical evaluation and stool testing. When the latter results are negative or symptoms fail to resolve, endoscopic examination and biopsies are indicated. Biopsies will frequently permit distinction among acute infectious colitis, IBD, and colonic ischemia and might identify specific infectious etiologies. 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