BACKGROUND: Ischemic bowel disease, especially acute mesenteric ischemia, carries high morbidity and mortality rates. Any delay in diagnosis or treatment aggravates the patient's outcome.

Woman who had agonizing stomach pain and a bloated belly had a twisted colon, or sigmoid volvulus. Doctors had to untwist it ...

What is the natural history of ischemic colitis ... while others result inobstructive symptoms or an overt large bowel obstruction. A lessfrequent complication (<5%) is the development of colonic ...