European Scientific Journal July 2014 edition vol.10, No.21 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431 67 IS ACUTE APPENDICITIS ASSOCIATED WITH INACTIVE ULCERATIVE COLITIS A PARTICULAR CASE OF DISSOCIATION OF THE MECHANISMS OF IMMUNE DEFENCE WITHIN THE APPENDIX AND THE COLON? IMPLICATIONS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE Silvia Velciov Cristina Gluhovschi Ligia Petrica “V.Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, County Emergency Hospital Timisoara, Department of Nephrology Ciprian Duta “V.Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, County Emergency Hospital Timisoara, Department of Surgery Marioara Cornianu “V.Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, County Emergency Hospital Timisoara, Department of Pathology Adrian Gluhovschi “V.Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, County Emergency Hospital Timisoara, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Romulus Timar “V.Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, County Emergency Hospital Timisoara, Department of Diabetes Gheorghe Gluhovschi County Emergency Hospital Timisoara, Department of Nephrology, “Member of the Romanian Academy of Science Abstract Introduction: The presence of a well-known immune system within the bowel and the appendix, a genuine lymphoid organ, imposes a thorough analysis of the inter-relation between those two segments of the digestive tract (in the course of acute appendicitis associated to inactive ulcerative colitis), from an anatomical and functional perspective. Design. We present a case of acute gangrenous appendicitis in an 80 year- old female patient with ulcerative colitis (UC) and history of repeated