title: Spontaneous intraabdominal haemorrhage caused by segmental mediolytic arteritis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus--an underestimated entity of autoimmune origin?
abstract: We describe the sixth known case of segmental mediolytic arteritis and the third in a survivor. A 70-year-old woman had intraabdominal bleeding due to a ruptured aneurysm of the omental artery. Interestingly, this patient also had a systemic lupus erythematosus. This report gives further support to the role of immune abnormalities underlying segmental mediolytic arteritis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Oulu University Hospital, Finland.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Juvonen
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Niemelä
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reinilä
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nissinen
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Kairaluoma
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D001158:Arteries / Q000473:pathology; D001167:Arteritis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000150:complications*; D009852:Omentum / Q000098:blood supply; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous