Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Images
Colonic ischemia
Symptoms
Abdominal pain -
Blood in the stool (may be bright red or maroon) Diarrhea Fever Vomiting
Signs and tests
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Colonoscopy or flexiblesigmoidoscopy - Computerized tomography (
CT scan )
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Review Date: 01/20/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Mediicne, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; and George F. Longstreth, MD, Department of
Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San
Diego, California. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical
Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
