Hepatobiliary Alterations in Ulcerative Colitis: A Report from a Tertiary Care Centre in Odisha

IntroductionUlcerative colitis (UC) is an idiopathic, chronic-relapsing progressive, inflammatory bowel disease.The inflammatory process is limited to mucosa.Ulcerative colitis affects the distal rectum and extends for varying distances proximally.Clinically, it manifests most often through diarrhoea, blood and/or mucus in stools, tenesmus, abdominal pain and weight loss.The explicitness of intestinal symptomatology depends on the level of inflammatory process that is the activity of the disease.By complementary analysis of clinical symptoms and signs, as well as laboratory parameters, it is possible to clinically grade UC activity as mild, moderate and severe.Activity assessment has therapeutic and prognostic significance [1,2].Chronic ulcerative