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Audience: This simulation session is appropriate for emergency medicine residents at any level or medical students. Introduction: Mesenteric ischemia is a rare, but serious cause of abdominal pain. Practitioners must recognize the diagnosis quickly.
Shannon Toohey
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Mesenteric ischemia is classified as either acute or chronic. The former is a life-threatening emergency in which a sudden reduction in intestinal blood flow may ultimately result in bowel infarction. The most common causes are arterial embolism, arterial thrombosis, nonocclusive mesenteric ischemia, and mesenteric venous thrombosis.
Adam Cloud +3 more
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Acute Mesenteric Ischemia: A Challenge for the Acute Care Surgeon
Acute mesenteric ischemia is considered uncommon, but it appears to be more frequent cause of acute abdomen than appendicitis or ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm in elderly patients.
Jussi M Kärkkäinen
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Acute Mesenteric Ischemia [PDF]
<b><i>Background:</i></b> Despite constant improvements in diagnostic as well as interventional and surgical techniques, acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) remains a life-threatening emergency with high mortality rates. The time to diagnosis of AMI is the most important predictor of patients’ outcome; therefore, prompt diagnosis ...
Florian, Kühn +2 more
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Objectives:Acute mesenteric ischemia and other end organ emboli are serious life-threatening complications after open-heart surgery. In this study, we evaluated the outcome of patients with mesenteric ischemia and splenic infarction after cardiac surgery.
Çağdaş Baran +8 more
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Diagnosis of acute mesenteric ischemia in the early stages is now possible with modern computed tomography (CT), using intravenous contrast enhancement and imaging in the arterial and/or portal venous phase.
Acosta, Stefan
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Mesenteric Ischemia: Diagnosis and Management
Mesenteric ischemia is a rare etiology of abdominal pain caused by impaired blood flow to the mesenteric circulation. This condition has acute and chronic variations and is associated with high mortality and morbidity.
Sidhi Laksono , Natasha Anindhia Harsas
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Mesenteric Ischemia: A Case of Extrapulmonary Presentation in COVID-19
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is a predominantly respiratory infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It creates a hypercoagulable milieu, manifesting at varied extrapulmonary sites as pulmonary embolism, deep ...
Radhika Salpekar, Sunil Krishna
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Acute mesenteric ischemia [PDF]
Acute mesenteric ischemia is a group of diseases characterized by disruption of blood supply to different parts of the intestine leading to ischemia and secondary in-flammation.
Cheng-Cheng SUN, Xue-Liang JIANG
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Challenges Encountered during the Treatment of Acute Mesenteric Ischemia
Introduction. Acute mesenteric ischemia, although rare, is associated with numerous complications and death. This work presents acute mesenteric ischemia treatment based on an analysis of various management strategies and identifies prognostic factors ...
Mateusz Jagielski +2 more
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