The coeliac trunk is a surgically significant artery originating from the abdominal aorta and supplying the supracolic organs. Branches of this arterial trunk supply the primary organs of the abdomen and divert a significant volume of blood from the abdominal aorta. Past research has shown that the anatomy of the coeliac trunk is not identical for all human beings and that about 15% of the popu...

We describe a rare variation in the origin of gastroduodenal artery from celiac trunk during routine educational dissection of a 50-year-old male cadaver of Asian origin in our department of Anatomy. Celiac trunk apart from its usual three branches, the left gastric artery, common hepatic artery and splenic artery also gave origin to the gastroduodenal artery in the present case (Figure 1). The...

Due to a lack of early symptoms, pancreatic cancers of the body and tail are discovered mostly at advanced stages. These locally advanced cancers often involve the celiac axis or the common hepatic artery and are therefore declared unresectable. The extended distal pancreatectomy with en bloc resection of the celiac artery may offer a chance of complete resection. We present the case of a 48-ye...

Rapid restoration of flow into the true lumen and obliteration of a false lumen is considered the optimal approach to treating malperfusion syndrome due to acute aortic dissection. However, organ malperfusion can occasionally persist after proximal aortic graft replacement despite redirecting blood flow into the true lumen. A 35-year old man underwent the modified Bentall procedure for Stanford...

Recently, anti-deamidated gliadin antibodies were proposed for the serological diagnosis of celiac disease. We evaluate the specificity of different anti-deamidated gliadin antibodies ELISA in comparison with conventional anti-native gliadin kits. Serum samples from 46 non celiac patients were analyzed by five different quantitative ELISA for anti-native gliadin, anti-deamidated gliadin and ant...

Cardiac computed tomography (CT) is the primary noninvasive imaging modality to diagnose coronary artery disease. Though various methods have been proposed for coronary artery segmentation, most rely on at least one user click to provide a seed point for initialization. Automatic detection of the coronary ostia (where coronaries originate from the aorta), including both the native coronary osti...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the growth rate of type B double-barrel aortic dissection with computed tomography (CT) and the factors influencing its enlargement. METHODS AND RESULTS Sixty-two patients were entered into this study, and regular follow-up CT studies (mean; 49.1 months) were performed. The affected aortas and iliac arteries were divided into 5 segments (ao...

Celiac artery compression syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by postprandial intestinal angina caused by insufficient blood supply to the gastrointestinal organs. In this syndrome, the root of the celiac artery is compressed and narrowed by the median arcuate ligament of the diaphragm during expiration. We report here 3 such cases that were diagnosed by the use of multislice computed tom...

We describe an interesting clinical course of a patient who developed severe ischemic liver injury due to acute embolism of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) and celiac artery. A 70-year-old man was hospitalized for abdominal pain and diarrhea. Abdominal computed tomography demonstrated a variant common hepatic artery arising from the SMA and multiple thromboembolic occlusions of visceral ar...

A postpartum female presented with aching abdominal pain as well as persistently elevated blood pressure poorly controlled by medication. Computed tomography angiography was performed and identified an aneursym of the celiac artery proximal to its branching points. Due to symptomatic presentation of the patient and plans of future pregnancy, surgical repair of the aneursym was planned and perfo...