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01.02.2015 | Original Article
Natural history of outpatient-onset ischemic colitis compared with other lower gastrointestinal bleeding: a long-term cohort study
verfasst von:
Naoyoshi Nagata, Ryota Niikura, Tomonori Aoki, Takuro Shimbo, Yoshihiro Kishida, Katsunori Sekine, Shohei Tanaka, Hidetaka Okubo, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Toshiyuki Sakurai, Chizu Yokoi, Junichi Akiyama, Mikio Yanase, Masashi Mizokami, Naomi Uemura
Erschienen in:
International Journal of Colorectal Disease
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Ausgabe 2/2015
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Abstract
Purposes
The long-term clinical course of outpatient-onset ischemic colitis remains unknown. Our aims are to elucidate the in- and out-of-hospital clinical outcomes of ischemic colitis and compare them with those of lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB).
Method
A cohort of 370 outpatients was hospitalized for ischemic colitis (n = 57) or other LGIB (n = 313). All patients had undergone colonoscopy. During hospitalization, the need for transfusion or interventions, further bleeding, mortality, and length of hospital stay were measured. After discharge, long-term recurrence and mortality were analyzed by the Kaplan–Meier method.
Results
Colonoscopy revealed that 88 % of ischemic colitis cases were left sided. Compared with other LGIB, ischemic colitis cases had significantly lower transfusion requirements (p < 0.01), further bleeding (p = 0.02), endoscopic intervention (p < 0.01), and shorter hospital stay (p = 0.03). No significant differences between the groups were noted in the need for surgery, angiographic procedures, or mortality during hospitalization. During a mean follow-up of 22 months, rebleeding was significantly lower (log-rank test; p < 0.01) in ischemic colitis cases (5.3 %) than in other LGIB cases (19.4 %) after discharge. During the mean follow-up period of 29 months, 1 patient (1.8 %) with ischemic colitis and 18 patients (5.8 %) with other LGIB died (log-rank test; p = 0.41).
Conclusions
Outpatient-onset ischemic colitis patients usually had left-sided colitis, recovered with conservative short-term treatment and had lower transfusion requirements and further bleeding compared with other LGIB patients. After discharge, patients with outpatient-onset ischemic colitis had lower recurrence over the long term than other LGIB patients.