The clinical and pathological findings in 23 patients with ischaemic lesions of the alimentary tract (ischaemic enterocolitis) are described. These are compared with findings in 13 patients with occlusive thrombosis of the superior mesenteric artery. The pathological features distinguishing the two conditions are discussed. Ischaemic enterocolitis was found to be a relatively common condition (...

T he risk of intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) is increased in patients with ischaemic cerebrovascular disease and vice versa. Risk factors shared by both stroke subtypes, such as hypertension, age, and smoking, partly explain this observation. While some researchers stress that most ischaemic stroke subtypes have similar risk factor profiles, one can go further and claim that most strokes (ischa...

Studies were made for evidence of heart disease on 501 people aged 65 and more living at home; 22-4 per cent had clinical and/or electrocardiographic evidence of ischaemic heart disease. The prevalence of ischaemic heart disease increased with age, and was slightly greater in men than women. The frequency of ischaemic heart disease increased with increasing current cigarette consumption and wit...

BACKGROUND Objective timing of stroke in emergency departments is expected to improve patient stratification. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) relaxations times, T2 and T1ρ , in abnormal diffusion delineated ischaemic tissue were used as proxies of stroke time in a rat model. METHODS Both 'non-ischaemic reference'-dependent and -independent estimators were generated. Apparent diffusion coeffi...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that sleep disorders are relevant to the risk of ischaemic stroke and ischaemic heart disease events in older men. DESIGN A cohort study. SETTING The Caerphilly cohort, a representative population sample of older men in South Wales, UK. PARTICIPANTS 1986 men aged 55-69 years completed a questionnaire on sleep patterns with help from their partners. This as...

Relatives of young patients with ischaemic heart disease have a substantially increased risk of early death from ischaemic heart disease (Slack and Evans, 1966), and family aggregations of death from ischaemic heart disease were noted especially amongst the few patients with essential hyperlipidaemia. Morris, Kagan, Pattison, Gardner, and Raffle (1966) have called attention to the value of rais...

THE CONCEPT of ischaemia as a cause of colitis is a relatively new one (Marston et al., 1966). It seems to be an uncommon type of colitis and is certainly much less frequent than ulcerative colitis and segmental colitis due to Crohn's disease. However, it is possible that in large general hospitals, dealing particularly with geriatric patients, ischaemic colitis may be recognized more frequentl...

BACKGROUND Change in left ventricular end-systolic volume (∆LVESV) is the most frequently used surrogate marker in measuring response to cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT). We investigated whether ∆LVESV is the best measure to discriminate between a favourable and unfavourable outcome and whether this is equally applicable to non-ischaemic and ischaemic cardiomyopathy. METHODS 205 CRT pa...

AIM Sometimes ischaemic cardiomyopathy is a result of severe coronary artery disease of an occult course, without typical symptoms or evidence of myocardial infarction. This form of presentation is usually indistinguishable from non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy. Carotid bifurcation atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease have been shown to be strongly associated. We prospectively examin...