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Let me introduce myself, I am from China, one of my best friends suffers from CD for years, I do what I can to help her, recently she need to email her case to US doctor for further advice, I help her to translate her story from chinese to English, but it's more like chinglish(chinese english), I had done my best already, I hope you can help me to correct the sentences to idiomatic english, you can copy and paste it to word pad, after correcting, you can post it as comment, thanks!!:)

Her story
Case from WUHAN CITY of CHINA, Female 23 yrs old, diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 2004, no family member has Crohn’s disease.
Patient experienced abdominal pain from childhood, because the sharp pain lasted several seconds to several minutes and no diarrhea constipation and throwing up, patient only took anti-stomachache medicine.
In November 2004, patient felt severe abdominal pain lasted longer than ever, she went to hospital and diagnosed with gastroenteritis, patient went home after infusion. It flared up in the mid-night, the patient threw up first then had bowel movement with large amount of blood, and patient felt very sick and was sent to local hospital immediately, in hospital she had another bowel movement with huge amount of blood again, and patient in state of shock then had blood transfusion 400ml to save life, and had the 1st colonoscopy result is:

The patient was treated in medical department of hospital first, took the chest and abdomen X-ray result is normal no symptoms of tuberculosis, PPD test----Negative, Barium meal test found 10cm stricture at the end of small intestine and ileum. Doctor prescribed Rifampicin+Isoniazid+Ethambutol to treat her as tuberculosis. After 3 months’ anti-tuberculosis treatment, no sign of remission and had 2nd colonoscopy the result is:

Doctor prescribed another 3 months’ anti-tuberculosis medicine, during taking the anti-tuberculosis medicine abdomen still feel painful, the tuberculosis was excluded patient was treated as CD.
In July 2005, patient started to take Mesalazine, 5-Amino Salicylic Acid,Pentasa,Etiasa 4000mg/day, patient went to remission.
In November 2005, patient felt sore in anus area, after several weeks abscess developed to size of fist located between anus and vagina area, it made the sitting and walking impossible, and she began to have fever and white blood cell increasing. Patient had abscess drainage in December. Two week after drainage, wound heal from 5cm to a tiny opening, but it never closed up and always have yellow pus come out until today and it becomes a fistula, the opening can close up shortly but it will open because the fistula was filled with pus, it bothers patient very much and makes her depressed.
One month after the drainage patient had an examination for the wound, the result is:

In February 2006 Patient had the 4th colonoscopy the result is:

And Pentasa cannot control the disease, patient began to take Imuran from April 2006, 100mg/day, and patient went to full remission, the quality of life improved a lot, feel as if living without CD, blood and C testing is normal, function of liver and kidney is normal, a bit anemic.

In February 2007 patient had the 5th colonoscopy, the result is:

With taking the immunosuppressant Imuran patient feels no more pain in abdomen, but the opening is very troublesome, patient visited Doctor in December 2007 for the fistula, Doctor checked the cavity of fistula, the surface is not smooth and have granuloma, but never do full examination so don’t know the route of fistula, considered that fistula was caused by CD the hospital refuse to adopt the patient, but she want to cure it, hope specialists can give some advice,thanks!!
 
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Here you go, I hope I've helped... and I hope I didn't mistranslate anything that you were trying to say. I hope she gets the help she needs!





Case from WUHAN CITY of CHINA
A Female, 23 years old, was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease in 2004. She has no family history of bowel disorders such as Crohn's Disease.

The patient experienced abdominal pain throughout her childhood but because the sharp pain lasted only several seconds to several minutes, with no diarrhea, constipation or throwing up, she only took a common stomachache medicine.

In November 2004, the patient felt severe abdominal pain that was lasting longer than she was used to. She went to the hospital and was diagnosed with Gastroenteritis. Afterwards, the patient went home after an infusion, however, it flared up again in the middle of the night. She threw up first and then had a bowel movement with a large amount of blood. She felt very sick and was sent to a local hospital immediately, in the hospital she had another bowel movement with a large amount of blood again, and she was in a state of shock. The hospital later gave her a blood transfusion of 400ml to save her life. Then she was taken in for a colonoscopy. The results were:

The patient was treated in the medical department of the hospital first. They took a chest and abdomen X-ray. These showed no symptoms of tuberculosis. She was given a PPD test which came back negative. A Barium meal test found a 10cm stricture at the end of the small intestine and ileum. The physician prescribed Rifampicin, Isoniazid, and Ethambutol to treat her for tuberculosis. After 3 months of the anti-tuberculosis treatment, she showed no signs of remission and had her 2nd colonoscopy. The results were:

The doctor prescribed another 3 months of anti-tuberculosis medicine, however, while taking the anti-tuberculosis medicine her abdomen still felt painful. The doctor stopped treating for Tuberculosis and started her on treatments for Crohn's Disease.

In July of 2005, the patient started to take Mesalazine, 5-Amino Salicylic Acid, Pentasa, and Etiasa 4000mg/day. She went into remission.

In November 2005, she felt sore in anal area, and after several weeks an abscess developed that was the size of a fist. It was located between anal and vaginal areas, it made the sitting and walking impossible. She had also begun to have a fever and her white blood cell count was increasing. In December, she had the abscess drained. After two weeks, the wound healed from a 5cm hole to a tiny opening, but it never closed up completely and always excreted yellow pus. It became a fistula which she still has today, the opening sometimes heals, but it opens again because the fistula is filled with pus. The fistula bothers her very much and makes her depressed.


One month after the drainage patient had an examination for the wound, and the doctor sent her to get a colonoscopy. He determined that Pentasa couldn't control the disease, so he put her on 100mg of Imuran a day in April of 2006. She went into full remission again, and her quality of life greatly improved. Blood tests all came back normal, except for being mildly anemic. Kidney and liver tests all came back normal as well.

In February 2007 patient had another colonoscopy. While taking the Imuran, she feels better, but she still has the recto-vaginal fistula. In December of 2007, the cavity of the fistula was checked. It was found that the surface isn't smooth and she has granulomas. The doctor didn't do a full examination of the fistula, so the route of the fistula is unknown. The doctor refuses to treat the patient for the fistula because it was caused by Crohn's Disease. The patient desperately would like to fix it though, and is hoping that some specialists can give her some advice! Thank you!!
 

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