Management of acute mesenteric ischaemia: Recommended strategy is misleading
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Acute mesenteric ischaemia.
The experience of acute mesenteric ischaemia at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, has been reviewed over 17 years. The mortality remains appallingly high. This applies particularly to those patients who had thrombosis of the superior mesenteric artery, amongst whom the mortality in this series was 97%. The mortality was slightly less in the group suffering from embolic occlusion of the superior...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.327.7411.396