Colitis after polytrauma: Case report

摘要

Across the medical literature, delayed diagnosis andtreatment leads to more costly and worse outcomes. Rehabilitationpatients, especially those with polytrauma, often have acomplex mixture of medical, social, and psychological healthproblems that can impair effective diagnosis and treatment. Thecase presentation describes the procession toward the diagnosisof ulcerative colitis in a preinjury asymptomatic male, suggestinga potential mechanism for its emergence and describing theeffect of delayed diagnosis on the efficiency of rehabilitativecare. As such, the differential diagnosis for early posttraumaticdiarrhea should remain broad, particularly if unexplained orineffectively controlled.