
Bowel Block in Pancreatitis
Author(s) -
Biggs Saravanan Ramachandran,
Mohammed Ali,
Sivakumar Palaniswamy,
Thangadurai Chinnaswamy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2013/4830.3065
Subject(s) - medicine , pancreatitis , acute pancreatitis , thrombosis , splenic artery , venous thrombosis , superior mesenteric artery , surgery , gastroenterology
Acute pancreatitis is a multisystem disorder which can result in a variety of complications. Vascular complications can occur commonly in acute pancreatitis. Splenic artery rupture, aneurysms; gastro duodenal artery aneurysms; splenic venous thrombosis; portal venous thrombosis and rarely, superior mesenteric venous thrombosis, are the vascular complications of pancreatitis. Ischaemic stricture of the small bowel can occur secondary to pancreatitis, but it is extremely rare. Hence, we are reporting this case of a proximal jejunal stricture which occurred secondary to the pancreatitis which was caused by a superior mesenteric thrombosis.