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Department of Radiology, Université Catholique
de Louvain, St-Luc University Hospital, Avenue Hippocrate 10, B-1200 Brussels,
Belgium.
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Center for Biostatistics and Medical Documentation, Mont-Godinne University
Hospital, Avenue Therasse I, B-5530 Yvoir, Belgium.
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Department of Internal Medicine, St-Luc University Hospital, B-1200 Brussels,
Belgium.
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Department of Intensive Care and Emergency, St-Luc University Hospital, B-1200
Brussels, Belgium.
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Department of Surgery, St-Luc University Hospital, B-1200 Brussels,
Belgium.
OBJECTIVE. The objective of this study was to compare the value of color Doppler sonography with early clinical and laboratory findings in determining the prognosis of patients with ischemic colitis.
SUBJECTS AND METHODS. We reviewed the early clinical, laboratory, and color Doppler sonographic data of 24 patients with ischemic colitis. The patients were divided into two groups on the basis of their outcome. The first group comprised the patients with transient ischemia who recovered uneventfully, and the second group included the patients who needed surgery because of symptomatic transmural colic gangrene or colic stricture. Clinical data and laboratory values were compared with color Doppler sonographic findings including colic wall thickness, presence of stratification, and arterial flow in the bowel wall.
RESULTS. At univariate analysis, increased age (p = 0.007), leukocyte count (p = 0.030), lactate dehydrogenase level (p = 0.030), blood lactate level (p = 0.041), and absence of vascular flow in the colic wall (p < 0.001) were significantly related to complicated ischemic colitis. At multivariate analysis, absence of arterial flow was the only significant predictor of complicated ischemic colitis (p = 0.002), with a sensitivity of 82%, a specificity of 92%, a positive predictive value of 90%, and a negative predictive value of 86%.
CONCLUSION. Absence of arterial flow in the wall of the ischemic colon on initial color Doppler sonography is suggestive of an unfavorable outcome and is more closely associated with outcome than early clinical and laboratory findings.
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