Ulcerative colitis: description, genetics, manifestation (familial case of ulcerative colitis)

A burdened familial history is an important risk factor for inflammatory bowel disease. This factor occurs in 8-12% of patients and more often with Crohn's disease, than with ulcerative colitis. In this article, we present an example of the hereditary nature of the ulcerative colitis course and the features of the history, diagnosis and clinical picture in the family (mother, daughter and grandson). Clinical observation demonstrates the presence of both similar and distinctive features in patients with the familial form of the disease. The ulcerative colitis manifested in the observed patients at 38, 30 years and at 8 months. The mother had the onset of the disease with extraintestinal manifestations in the form of arthropathy, erythema nodosum, episcleritis and iron deficiency anemia. The manifestation of ulcerative colitis in daughter started with the use of antibacterial drugs and resulted in spontaneous miscarriage. Later she had repeated miscarriage. In the younger patient, the features of the clinical picture represent the early onset of the disease and its severe course. With each generation in this family, the course of ulcerative colitis became more severe and required the inclusion of glucocorticosteroids and immunosuppressants in the child's therapy to achieve remission. Considering the po-lygenetic pathophysiology of ulcerative colitis, currently, it is not possible to carry out genetic mapping in every patient. In the long term, the creation of a gene panel will help to develop and implement personalized management strategies, timely preventing, diagnosing and treating inflammatory bowel disease.

ulcerative colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, familial form, hereditary predisposition, disease manifestation