Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to H D Damuth.
A patient with "colonic thumbprinting" on a contrast examination of the colon, typical of ischemic colitis both clinically and radiographically, is presented. Both surgical and pathologic evaluations were performed within hours of the contrast enema and revealed no relevant abnormality. Colonic spasm is a possible mechanism for this finding.
Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty was performed in nine patients with symptomatic proximal left subclavian artery stenoses. All cases were technically successful. One significant delayed complication occurred in a patient whose common carotid-to-subclavian artery bypass graft occluded several months after a successful subclavian artery angioplasty with a probable subsequent embolic occlusion of the internal carotid artery. The other patients were asymptomatic after follow-up evaluations of 4-23 months.