Surgical intervention for isolated dissecting aneurysm of the superior mesenteric artery--a case report.
A 44-year-old man with abdominal pain was diagnosed as having a spontaneous isolated dissection of the superior mesenteric artery. The patient was successfully treated with endoaneurysmorrhaphy 5 months after the onset and has been symptom free 15 months after surgery. In view of the excellent surgical outcome in the literature, surgical intervention for this rare pathology should be considered.
Tsuji
Yoshihiko
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Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Japan. ytsuji@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.
Hino
Yutaka
Y
Sugimoto
Koji
K
Matsuda
Hitoshi
H
Okita
Yutaka
Y
D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D000792:Angiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017538:Mesenteric Artery, Superior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014463:Ultrasonography