Acute mesenteric ischemia is a serious acute abdominal condition requiring early diagnosis and intervention to improve the outcome. Although transmural acute bowel infarction represents about 1% of all cases of acute abdomen, it has a higher annual mortality rate than colon cancer. It tends to affect the colon in segmental fashion, mostly the splenic flexure and rectosigmoid portions of the col...

Introduction Mesenteric ischemia is an acute disease, with fatal outcome in about 70% of the cases (1). Since the interval between the onset of symptoms and irreversible damage of the bowel is app. 120-180 min. (2), there is need for an effective and reliable diagnostic procedure which can detect early changes in the mesenteric perfusion. An early detection of acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) re...

Background : Acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) is a life-threatening pathology that often requires urgent surgical intervention. It frequently faced in elderly patients. Despite advances the diagnosis of AMI morbidity, and mortality rates are still high. The presence comorbidities delayed intervention due to diagnostic difficulties, most cases, older patients with heart problems may be remarkable...

Acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) is one of the major life-threatening emergencies which require immediate attention and treatment. The most common cause AMI superior artery (SMA) occlusion secondary to an embolic phenomenon. We present a 55-year-old gentleman with acute SMA thromboembolism, treated by catheter directed thrombolysis (CDT) that helped in avoiding surgery. A male, known diabetes, h...

Background/Introduction Acute mesenteric ischemia is a life-threatening emergency with overall mortality ranging from 60% to 80%, and this survival rate has not improved substantially in recent decades. In surgical aortic reconstruction, occlusion of the aorta affects various organs through the ischemia reperfusion injury. Among these organs, the intestine is probably the most affected one. Sev...

Abdominal pain represents one of the most common clinical conditions. However, there are some challenging cases in which an extensive work-up is mandatory for the diagnosis. We present the case report of a 65-year-old man admitted to our department for diffuse abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, painful joints and rectal tenesmus. He initially had an urticarial rash, followed by palpabl...

INTRODUCTION We investigated prognostic parameters of patients who underwent surgical intervention for acute mesenteric ischemia by evaluating demographic characteristics and laboratory data on admission. METHODS The hospital records of 30 patients who underwent surgical interventions due to acute mesenteric ischemia between January 2008 and December 2012, were reviewed retrospectively. The r...

BACKGROUND The present series present three consecutive cases of successful percutaneous mechanical embolectomy in acute superior mesenteric artery ischemia. Superior mesenteric artery embolism is a rare abdominal emergency that commonly leads to bowel infarction and has a very high mortality rate. Prompt recognition and treatment are crucial for successful outcome. Endovascular therapeutic app...