Infarction of the Midgut Associated with Oral Contraceptives

VASCULAR occlusion of the bowel is rare in younger age groups. There has been little evidence that mesenteric thrombosis may complicate oral contraceptive therapy.1 Becently, ischémie colitis was described in two women, 29 and 32 years of age, who were taking oral contraceptives,2 and an earlier report associated an occlusion of the superior mesenteric artery in a 37-year-old woman with these drugs.3 We report two cases of midgut infarction in patients taking oral contraceptives.Case ReportCase 1. A 38-year-old married woman with 3 children was admitted to the hospital on May 4, 1966, after 2 isolated bouts of severe . . .