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Portable Thermographic Screening for Detection of Acute Wallenberg's Syndrome
Published on: September 19, 2019
Patient with both Wilkie syndrome and nutcracker syndrome
Michel K Barsoum1, Roger Fj Shepherd, Timothy J Welch
1Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Section of Vascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. barsoum.michel@mayo.edu
Abstract:
Wilkie syndrome or superior mesenteric artery syndrome is a rare cause of duodenal obstruction in pediatric and adult age groups. Its manifestations are due to compression of the third portion of the duodenum between the aorta and the superior mesenteric artery. We present one case of a 29-year-old female with a recent history of epigastric pain and severe weight loss due to duodenal obstruction from superior mesenteric syndrome. She was treated conservatively with jejunostomy tube feeding to regain loss of weight. Our case is unique in that the patient has also nutcracker syndrome.
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