Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Day #209 - Intestinal Ischemia

Today we heard an interesting case of a patient with post-prandial pain, early satiety and weight loss. The underlying cause was obstruction of the celiac and superior mesenteric arteries.

There is a general review of SMA syndrome here.

The relevant anatomy is reviewed below (images from wikimedia.org, click to enlarge)

Celiac Artery:
Superior Mesenteric Artery:Inferior Mesenteric Artery:

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