... main causes of bowel ischaemia are arterial and venous. Arterial thrombotic disease is the most common cause of bowel ischaemia. Venous caused bowel ischaemia is less common and is typically thrombotic. Non-thrombotic causes are rare and include systemic vasculitis, such as systemic lupus erythematosus...

... report a 78-year-old gentleman who was admitted for elective FEVAR procedure for a juxtarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm. Three days post-operatively, he deteriorated clinically. Computed tomography (CT) angiogram showed small bowel ischaemia and a replaced right hepatic artery originating from superior...

... of postoperative bowel ischaemia as a probability between 0.0 and 1.0. The −2 log-likelihood ratio test was used to test the overall significance of the predictive equation. To select the optimal cut point to define a positive test, a receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve was constructed. The cut-off point...

..., haemofiltration and ionotropic support for cardiorespiratory deterioration. Tazocin, gentamicin and metronidazole were commenced for treatment of presumed intra-abdominal sepsis on microbiology recommendation while a general surgical consult ruled out a perforated viscus, bowel ischaemia or the need...

..., mean age 75 years (range 40 98), operated on for acute bowel ischaemia between 1987 and 1996. Results: A total of 75 emergency operations were done, including 42 bowel-resections, one percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, and one thrombectomy. Thirty-one patients had exploration alone because...

..., as well as social isolation, stigma, and diminished quality of life. Other gastrointestinal diseases, including chronic pancreatitis, bowel ischaemia, and gastroparesis, while chronic in nature, are life-threatening illnesses leading to significant patient suffering and warrant a palliative approach...

... for intensive care clinicians to maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of their presentation and management. gastrointestinal disorders gastrointestinal haemorrhage diarrhoea abdominal hypertension bowel obstruction bowel ischaemia antiemetic drugs 5 HT3 receptor antagonists gastroparesis glucose...

.... This is followed by an outline of the various pathogenic mechanisms causing bowel ischaemia, the manifestation of vasculitis in the GI tract, and the use of imaging in diagnosis, and a discussion of the wide differential diagnosis-an important topic in the setting of suspected of acute GI vasculitis. Finally...

..., patients on steroids, minimally invasive and day case surgery, lumps in head, neck and skin, breast surgery, abdominal masses, acute abdomen, acute appendicitis, obstruction of the bowel, hernias, colorectal carcinoma, gastro-oesophageal carcinomas, bowel ischaemia, gastric surgery and its aftermath...

...Oxford University Press Mesenteric ischaemia encompasses a number of uncommon, but important, clinical conditions that can cause impairment to the splanchnic circulation as well as bowel ischaemia and infarction, and are best classified as acute or chronic and arterial or venous. One unifying...