Ischemic Colitis of the Left Colon in a Diabetic Patient

Diabetes mellitus may affect the gastrointestinal tract possibly as a result of autonomic neuropathy. Here we present a 68-year-old male with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus who presented with prolonged watery diarrhea and in whom imaging studies demonstrated ischemic colitis of the left col...

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Autores principales: Karayiannakis, Anastasios J., Bolanaki, Helen, Kouklakis, Georgios, Dimakis, Konstantinos, Memet, Ilker, Simopoulos, Constantinos
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Publicado: S. Karger AG 2011
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Published: April 2011
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21552382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000327981
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author Karayiannakis, Anastasios J.
Bolanaki, Helen
Kouklakis, Georgios
Dimakis, Konstantinos
Memet, Ilker
Simopoulos, Constantinos
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Bolanaki, Helen
Kouklakis, Georgios
Dimakis, Konstantinos
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description Diabetes mellitus may affect the gastrointestinal tract possibly as a result of autonomic neuropathy. Here we present a 68-year-old male with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus who presented with prolonged watery diarrhea and in whom imaging studies demonstrated ischemic colitis of the left colon. Resection of the affected colon resulted in sustained disappearance of symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-30887562011-05-06 Ischemic Colitis of the Left Colon in a Diabetic Patient Karayiannakis, Anastasios J. Bolanaki, Helen Kouklakis, Georgios Dimakis, Konstantinos Memet, Ilker Simopoulos, Constantinos Case Rep Gastroenterol Published: April 2011 Diabetes mellitus may affect the gastrointestinal tract possibly as a result of autonomic neuropathy. Here we present a 68-year-old male with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus who presented with prolonged watery diarrhea and in whom imaging studies demonstrated ischemic colitis of the left colon. Resection of the affected colon resulted in sustained disappearance of symptoms. S. Karger AG 2011-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3088756/ /pubmed/21552382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000327981 Text en Copyright © 2011 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: April 2011
Karayiannakis, Anastasios J.
Bolanaki, Helen
Kouklakis, Georgios
Dimakis, Konstantinos
Memet, Ilker
Simopoulos, Constantinos
Ischemic Colitis of the Left Colon in a Diabetic Patient
title Ischemic Colitis of the Left Colon in a Diabetic Patient
title_full Ischemic Colitis of the Left Colon in a Diabetic Patient
title_fullStr Ischemic Colitis of the Left Colon in a Diabetic Patient
title_full_unstemmed Ischemic Colitis of the Left Colon in a Diabetic Patient
title_short Ischemic Colitis of the Left Colon in a Diabetic Patient
title_sort ischemic colitis of the left colon in a diabetic patient
topic Published: April 2011
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088756/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000327981
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