Open AccessMesenteric venous thrombosis: multidisciplinary therapeutic approach
Author(s) -
Stefano Pieri,
Paolo Agresti,
Gianluca Monaco,
L. Conversano,
Emanuela Oliviero,
G Liotta,
Giovanni Colombo
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
emergency care journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2282-2054
pISSN - 1826-9826
DOI - 10.4081/ecj.2007.4.15
Subject(s) - medicine , thrombosis , venous thrombosis , intestinal ischemia , stenosis , mesenteric ischemia , mesenteric vein , therapeutic approach , ischemia , radiology , cardiology , disease , reperfusion injury , portal vein
Mesenteric venous thrombosis is a particular form of intestinal ischemia related to high mortality. The lack of a characteristic clinical picture often leads to a difficult diagnostic and therapeutic classification. We report the case of a young woman, using estrogenic and progestinic oral therapy, affected by a severe form of mesenteric thrombosis and complicated by segmental post ischemic stenosis of small intestine