title: [Fatal mesenteric ischemic accident caused by mesenteric inflammatory veno-occlusive disease].
abstract: A 72-year-old woman in good general health presented a massive intestinal and colonic ischemia with rapid post-operative death, due to mesenteric inflammatory veno-occlusive disease. Mesenteric inflammatory veno-occlusive disease, first described in 1994, is a vasculitis of unknown etiology limited to the mesenteric area, affecting exclusively veins and venules and sparing arteries. Histologically, there are acute lesions of lymphocytic and/or necrotizing, sometimes granulomatous phlebitis and chronic lesions of myointimal hyperplasia reducing the lumen of the veins. In this case, polymorphonuclear eosinophils were particularly numerous.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Anatomie Pathologique, Centre Hospitalier, Tulle.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Satgé
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jardel
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lavoine
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Goburdhun
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fléjou
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003106:Colon / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D007511:Ischemia / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D008641:Mesenteric Vascular Occlusion / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008642:Mesenteric Veins; D009336:Necrosis