Emergency Care Journal (Aug 2007)

Mesenteric venous thrombosis: multidisciplinary therapeutic approach

  • Stefano Pieri,
  • Paolo Agresti,
  • Gianluca Monaco,
  • Laura Conversano,
  • Emanuela Oliviero,
  • Gianluca Liotta,
  • Giovanni Maria Colombo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2007.4.15
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 4
pp. 15 – 20

Abstract

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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.