[Clinical features of 27 cases of ischemic colitis (author's transl)]

The Authors report own experience of ischemic colitis, related to 27 cases, that includes either primitive forms (transient ischemic colitis, ischemic stricture and necrotic-gangrenous ischemic colitis) or secondary (occlusive ischemic colitis, ischemic colitis following abdominoperineal excision of the rectum). Pathogenetic findings, now not completely defined, are discussed with reference to the literature on this subject. The important diagnostic problems are also evaluated, particularly in the evaluation of radiologic and endoscopic findings of spontaneous ischemic colitis; these, altogether, represent an almost specific clinical picture of ischemic colitis. At last are considered the problems related to surgical treatment, overall in the forms in which the irreversibility of the ischemic lesions has been ascertained.