Question: I read your article about irritable bowel syndrome with interest. For 7 1/2 years I was treated for it. About 30 minutes after eating, I was in such pain no painkiller could touch it. In ...

Chronic mesenteric ischemia causes severe stomach pain and is often overlooked or misdiagnosed. It affects fewer than 200,000 people a year in the U.S., and vascular surgeons can now treat the ...

BALTIMORE, Md. -- Chronic mesenteric ischemia causes severe stomach pain and is often overlooked or misdiagnosed. It affects fewer than 200,000 people a year in the US, and vascular surgeons can now ...

Clinical presentation is nonspecific in most cases and can be characterized by an initial discrepancy between severe abdominal pain and minimal clinical findings. In general, patients with AMI have an ...

Mesenteric ischemia results from insufficient blood flow to the intestines and has a high mortality rate, primarily due to delayed diagnosis. It is classified into acute (AMI) and chronic (CMI) forms, ...

A 60-year-old female underwent massive bowel resection for superior mesenteric artery (SMA) thrombosis. The resection extended from 10 cm distal to the cecum and on to the ascending colon with a ...

Mesenteric (or intestinal) artery disease is a condition that develops when the arteries in the abdomen that supply the intestines become narrowed, or blocked, by an accumulation of a fatty substance ...

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and fibromuscular dysplasia of the superior mesenteric artery that causes ischemic colitis are rare clinical entities. Their coexistence would probably be considered ...

A woman with known Crohn's disease and a previous partial resection of her small intestine presented with a poor appetite, weight loss, diarrhea and malnutrition. She was an ex-smoker and was taking ...

Imagine if it were so painful to eat that you lost half your body weight and you didn't understand why.One woman said she had given up hope until she finally got the correct diagnosis."I almost feel ...