Research Article
Is CT Angiogram of the Abdominal Vessels Needed following the Diagnosis of Ischemic Colitis? A Multicenter Community Study
Table 3
Vascular radiological findings between both groups.
| | | CT angiogram
( patients) | Contrast-enhanced CT scan
( patients) | value |
| | Average age | 63.85 | 65.74 | NS | | Gender | | | 0.2155 | | Female | 30 (88.2%) | 42 (77.8%) | | | Male | 4 (11.8%) | 12 (22.2%) | | | Atherosclerotic changes | 8 (23.5%) | 5 (9.3%) | 0.066 | | Stenosis | 12 (35.3%) | 5 (9.3) | 0.0025 | | Celiac trunk not seen | 0 (0%) | 1 (1.9%) | 0.425 | | SMA not seen | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | NS | | IMA not seen | 4 (11.8%) | 4 (7.4%) | 0.4887 | | AAA | 3 (8.8%) | 6 (11.1) | 0.73 | | Surgery (colectomy) | 1 (2.9%) | 3 (5.6%) | 0.566 | | Vascular surgery or angioplasty | 1 (2.9%) | 0 (0%) | 0.205 | | Death | 1 (2.9%) | 1 (1.9%) | 0.738 |
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AAA: abdominal aortic aneurysm, IMA: inferior mesenteric artery, NS: non-significance, SMA: superior mesenteric artery, and Bold values: statistically significant.
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