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Chinese Herbal Retention Enema for the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis
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[A case of ischemic colitis presenting as bloody diarrhea after normal saline enema]
Ji Eun Park1, Won Moon, Ji Hyun Nam
1Department of Internal Medicine, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
Abstract:
Ischemic colitis is a frequent disorder of large bowel in elderly persons or in debilitated patients with a variable underlying medical problems. Ischemic colitis may result from alterations in the systemic circulation or anatomic or functional changes in the local mesenteric vasculature. In most cases, no specific cause for the ischemic colitis is identified. Cases of ischemic colitis after enema for bowel cleansing have been rarely reported, but there has been no case report after normal saline enema. We report a case of ischemic colitis in a 72-year old patient with well-controlled hypertension, presenting as bloody diarrhea which developed after normal saline enema for preoperative bowel cleansing.
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