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Acute Ischaemia of the Visceral Arteries

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Vascular Surgery

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Abstract

Acute intestinal or mesenteric ischaemia may have sev- eral causes:

  • Nonocclusive ischaemia (NOMI)

  • Occlusive ischaemia:

  • Arterial embolism

  • Arterial thrombosis

  • Venous thrombosis

  • After aortoiliac surgery

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  1. Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

    David Bergqvist MD, PhD, FRCS

  2. Department of Vascular Surgery, Malmö General Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

    Stefan Acosta MD, PhD

  3. Department of Vascular Surgery, Academic Hospital Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

    Martin Björck MD, PhD

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  1. Department of Vascular Surgery Athens University Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Christos D. Liapis MD, FACS, FRCS

  2. Division of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Mülheim, Germany

    Klaus Balzer MD

  3. Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Fabrizio Benedetti-Valentini MD

  4. Department of Vascular Surgery Hospital Santa Maria and Faculty of Medicine, Director Instituto Cardiovascular de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    José Fernandes e Fernandes MD, PhD (Chief of Service) (Chief of Service)

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Bergqvist, D., Acosta, S., Björck, M. (2007). Acute Ischaemia of the Visceral Arteries. In: Liapis, C.D., Balzer, K., Benedetti-Valentini, F., Fernandes e Fernandes, J. (eds) Vascular Surgery. European Manual of Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30956-7_37

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