GIT- UC clinical

A patient presents to a rheumatologist with complaints of joint pain involving the large joints of the legs. The patient indicates that exacerbations in the joint pain are frequently accompanied by bloody diarrhea with stringy mucoid material, lower abdominal pain, and cramps that are temporarily relieved by defecation. Which of the following gastrointestinal disease is most likely to be implicated as the cause of the patient’s joint problems?