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Mesenteric ischemia after a cardiac operation: arteriosclerotic versus vasospastic etiology
A M Biraima1, M Genoni, M B Winkler
1Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery and the Institute for Diagnostic Radiology, City Hospital Triemli, Z rich, Switzerland.
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
|January 23, 2002
Abstract:
Gastrointestinal complications after extracorporeal circulation are rare but well known complications. We describe and illustrate 2 patients with occlusive intestinal ischemia of different origin presenting after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and present the different therapeutic algorithm.