Acute mesenteric ischaemia, a highly lethal disease with a devastating outcome

Vasa - Journal of Vascular Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 106-111

  Safioleas, M C ^a   Moulakakis, K G ^b,d   Papavassiliou, V G ^c   Kontzoghu, K ^a   Kostakis, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute; Angioplasty; Mesenteric ischemia ischaemia; Occlusive disease; Superior mesentery artery

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; ISCHEMIA; LETHALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENTERY BLOOD FLOW; MESENTERY DISEASE; MESENTERY ISCHEMIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECROSIS; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMBOLECTOMY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; MESENTERIC VASCULAR OCCLUSION; MESENTERIC VEINS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33744958419     PISSN: 03011526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0301-1526.35.2.106     Document Type: Article

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