Preface

  Ischemic colitis is cogitated as an injury to the colon engendered due to colonic hypo-perfusion. Extent of ischemic injury ranges from superficial colonic degradation and inflammation to necrosis and incriminates full-thickness of the intestinal wall. Nevertheless, ischemic damage enunciated within the colon is attributed to several factors exemplifying a complicated pathophysiology. Ischemic colitis was scripted as a distinct disease in 1966 by Marston., et al. and was categorized into gangrenous, stricture formation and transient [1].

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Citation

Citation: Anubha Bajaj. “The Vascular Imbalance - Ischemic Colitis".Acta Scientific Pharmacology 1.10 (2020): 19-24.

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Copyright: © 2020 Anubha Bajaj. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.