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==Endoscopy==
==Endoscopy==
Ischemic colitis has a distinctive endoscopic appearance; endoscopy can also facilitate alternate diagnoses such as [[infection]] or [[inflammatory bowel disease]]. [[biopsy|Biopsies]] can be taken via endoscopy to provide more information.<ref name="MacDonald2002">{{cite journal|last1=MacDonald|first1=P.H.|title=Ischaemic colitis|journal=Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology|volume=16|issue=1|year=2002|pages=51–61|issn=15216918|doi=10.1053/bega.2001.0265}}</ref>
* Ischemic colitis has a distinctive endoscopic appearance; endoscopy can also facilitate alternate diagnoses such as [[infection]] or [[inflammatory bowel disease]]. [[biopsy|Biopsies]] can be taken via endoscopy to provide more information.<ref name="MacDonald2002">{{cite journal|last1=MacDonald|first1=P.H.|title=Ischaemic colitis|journal=Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology|volume=16|issue=1|year=2002|pages=51–61|issn=15216918|doi=10.1053/bega.2001.0265}}</ref>


*Early endoscopy can confirm the diagnosis by direct visualisation and provides prognostic information to help distinguish between cases that may settle with conservative management and those that may require emergency resection.
*Early endoscopy can confirm the diagnosis by direct visualisation and provides prognostic information to help distinguish between cases that may settle with conservative management and those that may require emergency resection.
Transient non-gangrenous features of ischemic colitis observed at colonoscopy include:
 
**Petechial haemorrhages.
* Transient non-gangrenous features of ischemic colitis observed at colonoscopy include:
**Edematous and fragile mucosa.
** Petechial haemorrhages.
** Edematous and fragile mucosa.
**Segmental erythema.
**Segmental erythema.
**Scattered erosions.
**Scattered erosions.
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*Cyanosis and pseudo-polyps suggest a transmural ischemia.
*Cyanosis and pseudo-polyps suggest a transmural ischemia.
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Hamid Qazi, MD, BSc [2]

Overview

Among patients with a suspicion of ischemic colitis, endoscopic evaluation, via colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy, is the diagnostic procedure of choice if the diagnosis remains unclear after other imaging studies.

Endoscopy

  • Early endoscopy can confirm the diagnosis by direct visualisation and provides prognostic information to help distinguish between cases that may settle with conservative management and those that may require emergency resection.
  • Transient non-gangrenous features of ischemic colitis observed at colonoscopy include:
    • Petechial haemorrhages.
    • Edematous and fragile mucosa.
    • Segmental erythema.
    • Scattered erosions.
    • Longitudinal ulcerations (colon single stripe sign).
    • A sharply defined segment of involvement.
  • Cyanosis and pseudo-polyps suggest a transmural ischemia.

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Colonoscopy

Colonoscopy is advocated by most studies, and there is no evidence that its use in assessment of ischaemic colitis is unsafe when performed by experienced practitioners.4 22 Retrospective studies of a total of 659 cases reported no cases of perforation secondary to colonoscopy,23 24 in data published in recent guidance.

References

  1. MacDonald, P.H. (2002). "Ischaemic colitis". Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology. 16 (1): 51–61. doi:10.1053/bega.2001.0265. ISSN 1521-6918.