Prognosis and follow-up of 135 patients with ischemic colitis over a five-year period

Table 1 Clinical features and clinical pattern of the ischemic colitis n (%)

Symptoms	No recurrence1 (n = 110)	Recurrence2 (n = 13)	P value
Acute abdominal pain	76 (69)	12 (92)	< 0.05
Haematochezia	90 (82)	11 (85)	0.4
Diarrhoea	41 (37)	6 (46)	0.2
AUBD sequence	57 (52)	7 (54)	0.4
Vomiting	20 (18)	5 (38)	< 0.05

¹Fulminant colitis 4, gangrenous colitis 8 and non-gangrenous colitis 98 (transient colitis 22, reversible colitis 42 and chronic segmental colitis 34);

²Transient colitis 5, reversible colitis 4 and 4 chronic segmental colitis. AUBD: Sequence of abdominal pain, urgent desire to defecate, and bloody diarrhoea.