An arteriographic study of mesenteric arterial disease. I. Large vessel changes.

EDITORIAL COMMENT This is an important study of large vessel changes causing chronic arterial insufficiency of the intestines. Symptoms of intestinal ischaemia have not been seen in this series in patients in whom the cross-sectional area of the arteries was greater than two-thirds of the normal. Arteriography is demonstrated as a valuable procedure in assessing the possibility of intestinal ischaemia as a cause of symptoms. ever, been carried out. Maljatzkaja (1934), in a patho- logical investigation of 85 cases at necropsy, found 206 on July 19,