title: Acute colorectal ischaemia after anaphylactoid shock.
abstract: A 29 year old woman is reported with bloody diarrhoea three hours after developing anaphylactoid shock. Sigmoidoscopy, barium enema, and histology showed rectal and colonic ischaemia to the splenic flexure. Recovery was complete. There was no history of vascular disease but the patient was taking an oral contraceptive. Thirty one other cases of spontaneous ischaemic proctitis are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: St Thomas's Hospital, London.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Travis
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Creamer
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000707:Anaphylaxis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D003106:Colon / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012007:Rectum / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology