A CASE OF TRANSIENT TYPE ISCHEMIC COLITIS LOCALIZED IN THE CECUM

Abstract

A 58-year-old woman had abdominal pain followed by fever and watery diarrhea. Three days later, the abdominal pain was localized to the right lower quadrant and was exacerbated ; this led to hospitalization. On the day after admission, colonoscopy revealed the presence of multiple ulcers with redness and marked edematous swelling in the cecum. Examination of a biopsy sample obtained from the lesion showed a ghost-like appearance, and the bacterial culture was negative. These findings taken together with the endoscopic findings, led to a diagnosis of ischemic colitis. We herein a case of ischemic colitis of the cecum ; this type of case is very rare, and the present case is even more rare because it is of the transient type.