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Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

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• Maintain a high degree of suspicion: the primary goal is diagnosis prior to bowel infarction — a complication that carries a mortality of up to 90% [1, 2]. • Aggressive use of angiography to make the correct diagnosis and plan surgical intervention appropriately. • Restoration of bowel perfusion requires not only surgical intervention but also aggressive use of invasive monitoring to assure adequate resuscitation. • Following resection of devitalized bowel, make a plan for a second-look procedure based on the appearance of the bowel.

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  1. Department of Surgery Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1650 Selwyn Avenue 4th Floor, Suite 4F, Bronx, NY, 10457, USA

    Moshe Schein (Professor of Surgery) (Professor of Surgery)

  2. Eaton North 9–234 Toronto General Hospital University Health Network, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2C4, Canada

    John C. Marshall (Professor of Surgery) (Professor of Surgery)

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Raymond, D.P., May, A.K. (2003). Acute Mesenteric Ischemia. In: Schein, M., Marshall, J.C. (eds) Source Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55914-3_36

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