A 66-year-old man presented with signs of right lower leg arterial occlusion followed by epigastric pain and rectal bleeding, prompting evaluation for mesenteric vascular occlusion.
Case Report (n=1)
A case report describing a 66-year-old man presenting with signs of peripheral arterial occlusion followed by suspected mesenteric vascular occlusion.
Presentation of CaseA 66-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a question of mesenteric vascular occlusion.He was well until the day of admission, when there was the sudden onset of pain, numbness and impaired movement in the right lower leg, which was pale and cold. He was seen at another hospital, where he was considered to have an arterial occlusion, but the signs improved. He left the hospital and returned in the evening because of sharp epigastric pain accompanied by the passage of bright-red blood per rectum. He was transferred to this hospital.There was a . . .
Cabot et al. (Thu,) conducted a case report in Mesenteric vascular occlusion (n=1). A 66-year-old man presented with signs of right lower leg arterial occlusion followed by epigastric pain and rectal bleeding, prompting evaluation for mesenteric vascular occlusion.