Systemic vasculitis is generally believed to be an immune complex deposition in blood vessels. Gastrointestinal complications of vasculitis have been described as pain, diarrhea, rectal bleeding and abnormal liver enzymes. Taken in isolation, the symptoms are difficult to distinguish from inflammatory bowel disease, infectious colitis or ischemic colitis, although gastrointestinal vasculitis rarely presents without other [...]
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