Coeliac trunk stenting for mesenteric ischaemia

Abstract

A 73-year-old male patient was transferred to our institution for endovascular treatment of mesenteric isch aemia. His chief complaint was loss of appetite, intense abdominal pain, described as cramps, vomiting associated with food or liquid intake and watery diarrhoea. Morphine was necessary for pain control. He lost 10 kg (from 74 to 64 kg) in 5 months. He denied melaena, h aematochezia or fever, and did not travel abroad. For several days before transfer he was unable to eat and a saline perfusion was started because even intake of fluids triggered abdominal pain and vomiting.