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Although it is generally stated in any short historical introduction to an article concerning chronic mesenteric ischemia that Dunphy first correlated chronic abdominal pain to subsequent mesenteric artery occlusion and gut infarction in 1936, his paper did not arise suddenly from a barren field (Dunphy JE, Abdominal pain of vascular origin, Am J Med Sci. 1936;192:109–13). The problem with “mesenteric occlusion” and death from ischemic necrotic bowel had interested physicians for years previously. The problem was a complex one, but the impediments to understanding mesenteric ischemia and treating it were dishearteningly simple: neither diagnostic angiography nor vascular intervention was extant. Diagnosis was made during exploratory laparotomy for acute abdominal crises or at autopsy. Bowel resection was the sole surgical option.
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Cherry, K.J. (2015). History of Mesenteric Vascular Disease. In: Oderich, G. (eds) Mesenteric Vascular Disease. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1847-8_1
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