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An Unusual Cause of Acute Abdominal Pain: Spontaneous Celiac Artery Dissection
Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie1, Vijairam Selvaraj1, Arkadiy Finn1
1Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine The Miriam Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Abstract:
Isolated celiac artery dissection was first reported in 1959 and remains a rare phenomenon. Celiac artery dissection may occur in conjunction with aortic dissection or as an isolated event. Its incidence is less than superior mesenteric artery (SMA) dissection. Patients with isolated celiac artery dissection tend to be less symptomatic due to celiac artery communication with SMA. Here, we describe a middle-aged male with hypertension who presented with acute abdominal pain, and was found to have isolated, spontaneous celiac artery dissection.
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