Ischemic bowel

Ischemic bowel may refer to:

Ischemic colitis: ischemia of the large bowel
Mesenteric ischemia: ischemia of the small bowel

These vascular disorders of the intestines resulted in 80,000 deaths in 2013 up from 52,000 deaths in 1990.^[1]

References

↑ GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death, Collaborators (17 December 2014). "Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.". Lancet 385: 117–71. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61682-2. PMC 4340604. PMID 25530442.

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