Rizatriptan induced acute on top of chronic ischemic colitis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 104, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2643-2644

  Alkhatib, Amer A ^a   Gangotena, Fatima ^a   Peterson, Kathryn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIZATRIPTAN; SEROTONIN AGONIST; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; TRYPTAMINE DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ASCENDING COLON; BLOOD; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DESCENDING COLON; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEADACHE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE ULCER; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LETTER; MIGRAINE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTAL ERYTHEMA; RECTUM; RECTUM DISEASE; SIGMOID; TRANSVERSE COLON; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED;

COLITIS, ISCHEMIC; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; SEROTONIN AGONISTS; TRIAZOLES; TRYPTAMINES;

EID: 70350491196     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2009.356     Document Type: Letter

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