Experience with coeliac axis compression syndrome.
Seven patients with "coeliac axis compression syndrome" are reported. Five were treated surgically, but only two did well. A survey of 200 healthy adults showed epigastric bruits in 6.5%; only one of these had dyspepsia, though dyspepsia was present in 12.5% overall.Caution is urged in attributing a causal relationship between coeliac axis compression and pain and in proceeding to arteriography when compression is suspected on clinical grounds.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002445:Celiac Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D004415:Dyspepsia / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D011859:Radiography; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000150:complications