Microscopic colitis

Depending on your needs, an array of specialists is available for you at Mayo Clinic. Experts in digestive diseases, surgery, pathology, radiology and nutrition care work together to offer the care you need for microscopic colitis. Mayo's collaborative approach means that all our specialists work with you and your personal healthcare professional so that you'll get the care you need.

Tissue analysis specialists, called pathologists, at Mayo Clinic are experts at identifying microscopic colitis, which is critical to receiving the right treatment for you.Mayo Clinic specialists have experience helping people who don't respond to standard therapies for microscopic colitis. Mayo specialists can rule out other possible causes of lasting diarrhea and try different treatment approaches.

Mayo Clinic specialists have experience helping people who don't respond to standard therapies for microscopic colitis. Mayo specialists can rule out other possible causes of lasting diarrhea and try different treatment approaches.

• Experience. With 15 specialty groups and more than 175 digestive disease specialists on staff, the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic is one of the largest in the world. These specialists have broad experience with diagnosing and treating people with microscopic colitis.
• Microscopic Colitis Disease Activity Index. In 2011, Mayo Clinic doctors developed the Microscopic Colitis Disease Activity Index. This is a diagnostic tool that helps provide an objective and consistent way to measure the effect of microscopic colitis symptoms. Mayo Clinic researchers now use this assessment index in current studies to compare treatments for microscopic colitis more easily.
• Research leaders. Mayo Clinic healthcare professionals do research in new diagnostic tests and treatments for microscopic colitis and conduct clinical trials. Mayo focuses its research on cellular and molecular processes in a variety of digestive diseases, including microscopic colitis.