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Acute arterial thrombosis of the lower extremities due to prolonged intestinal obstruction
P Karamanakos1, C H Maltezos, C H Klonaris
1First Department of Surgery, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece.
Abstract:
A case of a female patient who was admitted urgently with intestinal obstruction, peripheral shock, hypovolemia and acute ischemia of the lower extremities is presented. The ischemia of the lower extremities had developed due to low cardiac output following extensive dehydration caused by a prolonged intestinal obstruction from a cholelith. Although this pathogenetic mechanism of acute ischemia of the lower extremities is well known, this characteristic case is, nevertheless, presented to alert the clinician of this situation.