Among patients with co-existing small bowel ischemia, 73.3% underwent intestinal surgery and 63.3% died. In contrast, patients with ischemic colitis isolated to the colon had fewer operations (21.7%) and reduced mortality (6.7%). CONCLUSIONS: Ischemic colitis is a common condition of the elderly...
Patients were identified using computerized searches of ICD-9 (International Classification of Diseases, ninth revision) codes for colon ischemia, and patterns of colon involvement were then tabulated and categorized into five major groups: right colon, transverse colon, left colon, distal colon, and ...