DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2014.v02i08.003

Pages: 513-514

Cyclosporine may be considered as state of the art treatment for steroid resistant severe ulcerative colitis. Up to 30-40% of the patients with severe ulcerative colitis will fail to respond to intravenous steroid treatment and would require surgical treatment. I report a case of steroid resistant severe ulcerative colitis, which failed to respond to cyclosporine due to presence of cytomegalovirus infection causing ischaemic colitis that had been seen on histopathological examination.