[Spontaneous dissolution of isolated superior mesenteric vein thrombosis in acute pancreatitis].
Acute pancreatitis can result in many vascular complications in both artery and vein. Venous complication usually occurs as a form of splenic or portal vein thrombosis, and also can simultaneously occur in superior mesenteric vein as well. Rarely, isolated superior mesenteric vein thrombosis occurs as a venous complication. Although it is uncommon, mesenteric vein thrombosis is an important clinical entity because of the possibility of mesenteric ischemia and infarction of small bowel. The treatments of mesenteric venous thrombosis include anticoagulation therapy, transcatheter therapy and surgical intervention. We report a case of 45-year- old man who had acute pancreatitis with isolated superior mesenteric vein thrombosis, which was spontaneously dissolved with the resolution of underlying inflammation without anticoagulation or surgical intervention.
Department of Internal Medicine, KwangMyung SungAe Hospital, Gwangmyeong, Korea.
Byung Soo
BS
Na
Byung Min
BM
John
Ki Bum
KB
Kim
Je Soo
JS
Lee
Hyun Woo
HW
Jo
Chang Hyeon
CH
Seock
Dong Hui
DH
Kim
Ki Sung
KS
Lee
D000208:Acute Disease; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008642:Mesenteric Veins; D008875:Middle Aged; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology