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Isabel Ferrer1, Guillem Benavent, Guillermo Bastida
1Servicio de Gastroenterología, Hospital de Manises, Valencia, España. 26siser@terra.es
Introduction:
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) usually affects the gastrointestinal tract, although some patients can also develop extraintestinal manifestations, such as vascular symptoms both venous and arterial ones. The former being more frequent than the latter.
Clinical Report:
We report the case of a 62-year-old male, diagnosed of Crohńs disease (CD) (A3,L1+L4,B3), admitted to hospital for treatment of a retroperitoneal abscess. He presented a peripheral arterial thromboembolism during his stay, which required urgent embolectomy. After anticoagulation with low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH), vascular magnetic resonance imaging revealed a large thrombus involving the descent aorta, which was solved with surgery and long-term anticoagulation.
Conclusion:
Peripheral arterial thrombosis is a rare extraintestinal manifestation of IBD. Nevertheless it is always important to consider it in patients with IBD. Prophylactic treatment should be made with low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) and definitive treatment with a combination of LMWH and surgery.
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