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Mesenteric ischemia after a cardiac operation: conservative treatment with local vasodilation
U Niederhäuser1, M Genoni, L K von Segesser
1Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, City Hospital Triemli, Zürich, Switzerland.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 1, 1996
Abstract:
Acute mesenteric ischemia is a rare and often fatal event after cardiopulmonary bypass. We describe a diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm and present a patient with nonocclusive intestinal ischemia who had a successful conservative treatment.