Ischaemic Colitis

Ischemic colitis is becoming increasingly one of the most important conditions involving the colon. This is due to a combination of multiple factors: (1) increasing age of the world population due to improved public health conditions and advances in medicine; (2) diagnostic advances in recognizing the condition; and, (3) education of physicians who suspect the disease in elderly individuals with colonic symptoms. The disease is a great masquerader of other conditions and can be mistaken for ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease or almost any other inflammatory disease of the large bowel. It can have shallow ulcers, deep ulcers, filiform polyps, and pseudomembrane. It can produce fistulae or toxic megacolon. The thumb­ printing and other acute findings are not always seen and the site of involvement may be atypical. It is therefore so important to have a book dealing with this condition extensively and in detail. This scholarly presentation based on large clinical experience significantly contributes to the knowledge of this important disease that will assume even more importance as other conditions involving the colon are successfully treated. As physicians, radiologists and even pathologists have difficulty in diagnosing this condition that appears under multiple guises the information contained here should be invaluable. Alexander R. Margulis, M. D. March 1984, San Francisco PREFACE First of all, I would like to congratulate the authors on their successful publication of this monograph with many diagnostic radiographs of new touch taken by the modern technique.

`This book is of value and interest to clinicians, radiologists and pathologists.'
Australian Radiology, 29:3 (1985)
`...an ideal source of reference. Any physician dealing with ischemic colitis, should find invaluable the detailed analyses of clinical presentations, anatomic distribution, laboratory investigation, radiographic studies, endoscopy, and the results of various therapeutic modalities employed.'
Radiology (June 1985)
`This book should be in all libraries as a reference work, and on the shelves of all practicing physicians.'
The American Journal of Gastroenterology, 80:2 (1985)
`...a tremendous data base for anyone with a special interest in this subject. This volume is a gold mine as a literature review and data base for those with a special interest in ischemic colitis...'
American Journal of Roentgenology, 144 (1985)
`...recommend this monograph to gastroenterologists, radiologists, pathologists, and surgeons as an aid to the interpretation and understanding of ischaemic colitis.'
The Journal of Clinical Pathology (April 1985)
`Dr Reeders and his colleagues have provided us with an up-to-date review of an increasingly clinical condition. This is a timely summary of ischemic colitis with an invaluable source of references.'
The Lancet