<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Chronic mesenteric artery disease has a much lower incidence than the acute one, but it raises the same problems in terms of patient survival. The long-term outcomes for open surgery are crucial for the right choice of a particular technique. We present the case of a 39-year-old female patient with a history of total nephrectomy, chronic kidney failure, and hypertension, who presented in the Emergency Department with abdominal pain with high intensity, for which she was admitted to the General Surgery Department. Abdominal computed tomography angiography was performed, which indicated the diagnosis of partial upper mesenteric artery stenosis. The patient underwent surgery, during which a retrograde aorto-mesenteric bypass with a Gore-Tex 5 mm diameter prosthesis was performed. In situations where the endovascular approach fails or has no indication (multiple incidence lesions from the origin of the superior mesenteric artery), open surgery is the indication in chronic mesenteric ischemia.</p></abstract>

Chronic mesenteric artery disease has a much lower incidence than the acute one, but it raises the same problems in terms of patient survival. The long-term outcomes for open surgery are crucial for the right choice of a particular technique. We present the case of a 39-year-old female patient with a history of total nephrectomy, chronic kidney failure, and hypertension, who presented in the Emergency Department with abdominal pain with high intensity, for which she was admitted to the General Surgery Department. Abdominal computed tomography angiography was performed, which indicated the diagnosis of partial upper mesenteric artery stenosis. The patient underwent surgery, during which a retrograde aorto-mesenteric bypass with a Gore-Tex 5 mm diameter prosthesis was performed. In situations where the endovascular approach fails or has no indication (multiple incidence lesions from the origin of the superior mesenteric artery), open surgery is the indication in chronic mesenteric ischemia.

Aorto-mesenteric Bypass for the Treatment of Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia

Department of Vascular Surgery, Emergency Clinical County Hospital

Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine

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Chronic mesenteric artery disease has a much lower incidence than the acute one, but it raises the same problems in terms of patient survival. The long-term...

Aorto-mesenteric Bypass for the Treatment of Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia

Published Online: Aug 01, 2019

Page range: 101 - 103

Received: May 04, 2019

Accepted: Jun 18, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2019-0012

Keywords
chronic mesenteric ischemia, revascularization, bypass

© 2019 Adriana Mocian et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Aorto-mesenteric Bypass for the Treatment of Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia

Published Online: Aug 01, 2019

Page range: 101 - 103

Received: May 04, 2019

Accepted: Jun 18, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2019-0012

Keywordschronic mesenteric ischemia, revascularization, bypass

© 2019 Adriana Mocian et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
chronic mesenteric ischemia, revascularization, bypass