[Intestinal angiodysplasia]

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F Spinelli1, A Carditello, M Barone

  • 1Istituto di Chirurgica Toracica e Cardiovascolare U.O. Chirurgia Toracica, Università degli Studi di Messina.

Il Giornale Di Chirurgia
|August 23, 2001
PubMed

Intestinal angiodysplastic lesions represent one frequent source of gastro-enteric tract serious bleedings, endowed with present-day therapeutic implications. The Authors report a singular case of a bleeding of this kind. A selective arteriography analysis of the superior mesenteric artery immediately pointed out the necessity for a surgical intervention, which however has not proved being resolutive for recovery, because massive intestinal hemmorrhage recurrence occurred. The left gastric artery anomalous origin, being discovered in the first branch of the mesenteric artery, which was not recognized fully in advance, stressed, in fact, the need for a partial gastrectomy, firstly, and a full gastrectomy, subsequently. The post-surgery course got more serious for a small leak of the oesophageus-digiunal anastomosis and for a serious renal failure. NPT and haemodialysis helped to quickly solve those complications. Other hemorrhagic events have not occurred anymore, 5 years having passed since the surgical intervention.

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