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Descriptor English: Typhlitis
Descriptor Spanish: Tiflitis
Descriptor tiflitis
Scope note: Inflamación necrotizante del CIEGO (“typhlon” en griego), que a veces se extiende al APÉNDICE o al ÍLEON. Los síntomas consisten en DOLOR ABDOMINAL y DIARREA. Su patogénesis es multifactorial. La tiflitis se asocia a menudo a NEUTROPENIA y a la quimioterapia en el HUÉSPED INMUNODEPRIMIDO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Tiflite
Descriptor French: Typhlite
Entry term(s): Cecitis
Neutropenic Typhlitis
Typhlitis, Neutropenic
Tree number(s): C01.463.850
C06.405.205.596.750.500
C06.405.469.110.708
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D053706
Scope note: Necrotizing inflammation of the CECUM ("typhlon" in Greek), sometimes spreading to the APPENDIX and/or the ILEUM. Symptoms include ABDOMINAL PAIN and DIARRHEA. Its pathogenesis is multifactorial. Typhlitis is often associated with NEUTROPENIA and chemotherapy in immunocompromised individuals (IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST).
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 2007; see ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING 2004-2006
History Note: 2007 (2004)
Related: Enterocolitis, Necrotizing MeSH
Enterocolitis, Neutropenic MeSH
DeCS ID: 52103
Unique ID: D053706
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Date Established: 2007/01/01
Date of Entry: 2006/07/05
Revision Date: 2011/06/24
Typhlitis - Preferred
Concept UI M0445579
Scope note Necrotizing inflammation of the CECUM ("typhlon" in Greek), sometimes spreading to the APPENDIX and/or the ILEUM. Symptoms include ABDOMINAL PAIN and DIARRHEA. Its pathogenesis is multifactorial. Typhlitis is often associated with NEUTROPENIA and chemotherapy in immunocompromised individuals (IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST).
Preferred term Typhlitis
Entry term(s) Cecitis
Neutropenic Typhlitis - Narrower
Concept UI M0495708
Scope note An acute necrotizing inflammation of the CECUM occurring in neutropenic patients.
Preferred term Neutropenic Typhlitis
Entry term(s) Typhlitis, Neutropenic



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