A rare cause of ischemic colitis : colonoscopy
| Journal | Volume 77 - 2014 |
| Issue | Fasc.2 - Letters |
| Author(s) | Kadir Ozturk, Hakan Demirci, Ahmet Uygun, Sait Bagci |
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| Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Gastroenterology. |
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Ischemic colitis is the most common form of ischemic injury to the gastrointestinal tract representing more than half of the patients with gastrointestinal ischemia. There are many causes of ischemic colitis such as mesenteric artery embolism, thrombosis or colonic hypo-perfusion but colonoscopy-related ischemic colitis are quite rare and has been reported with only eight cases in the litera- ture to date (1-6). Here we present case of ischemic coli- tis following colonoscopy in a patient with no risk factors for ischemic colitis. |
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