Severe hemorrhagic colitis: Complication of mycophenolate mofetil

Backgound: The anti-rejection drug mycofenolate-mofetil (MMF) is known to cause gastrointestinal side-effects. Most often described of these is abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and bleeding with occasional ulceration and perforation. Colitis is a more infrequent adverse effect, 60 per cent of which is of infectious origin and the rest is thought to be side-effect of MMF Case report: A case of a 65 year-old female is described in whom MMF was administered for after kidney transplantation. Her past medical history was negative for colonic disease or major ischemic vascular disease. Five weeks after initiation of t…