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A catastrophic complication of systemic lupus erythematosus: massive mesenteric infarction
M Testini1, A Margari, G Piccinni
1Institution of 2nd General Surgery, University of Bari, Italy. chiplast@cimedoc.uniba.itx
Hepato-Gastroenterology
|August 5, 2000
Abstract:
The AA reports a case of a 64-year-old female patient affected for 3 years by systemic lupus erythematosus who developed a massive perforating mesenteric infarction. An immediate surgical treatment with resection of the small bowel and right colon followed by a side-to-side primary anastomosis between the remaining jejunum and transverse colon were performed. The patient died 15 days after surgery due to recurrence of a mesenteric and pulmonary thromboembolia.