Seltzer Emily S, Shenoy Shabari M, Yoon Bo Hyung, Rozenshteyn Frederick, Cavaliere Kimberly
Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai West and Morningside, New York, USA.
Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, West and Morningside, New York, USA.
Cureus. 2023 Feb 14;15(2):e34986. doi: 10.7759/cureus.34986. eCollection 2023 Feb.
The initial evaluation of reported inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) should include an assessment for immunosuppression which can broaden the differential diagnosis to include opportunistic infection as well as other processes. Here we present an exceedingly rare case of a patient with a self-reported history of Crohn's disease presenting with frequent diarrhea presumed to be a Crohn's flare, however, after further workup was found to have extensive visceral Kaposi sarcoma (KS).
对报告的炎症性肠病（IBD）进行初步评估时，应包括对免疫抑制情况的评估，这可拓宽鉴别诊断范围，将机会性感染及其他病症纳入其中。在此，我们报告一例极其罕见的病例，一名自述有克罗恩病病史的患者，因频繁腹泻就诊，最初推测为克罗恩病发作，但进一步检查后发现患有广泛内脏型卡波西肉瘤（KS）。
