title: Idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of mesenteric veins and pneumatosis intestinalis: a previously unreported association.
abstract: Idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of mesenteric veins is a very rare disease occurring in young male patients, with no more than eight cases reported in the world literature. It causes venous ischemia in the sigmoid colon and rectum that clinically resembles inflammatory bowel disease. Pneumatosis intestinalis is also a rare condition usually associated to a wide range of diseases including bowel ischemia. We herein report on a case of pneumatosis intestinalis associated to idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of mesenteric veins. To our knowledge, this is the first report of such an association, and the first one of idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of mesenteric veins occurring in a female patient as well.
authors.affiliation: G-I Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona. Catalonia, Spain.
authors.forename: Raquel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: García-Castellanos
authors.forename: Raquel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: López
authors.forename: Vicente Moreno
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: de Vega
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ojanguren
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Piñol
authors.forename: Jaume
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Boix
authors.forename: Eugeni
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Domènech
authors.forename: Eduard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cabré
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D008642:Mesenteric Veins / Q000473:pathology*; D011006:Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*; D017539:Tunica Intima / Q000473:pathology*