2015
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.54.3545
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Non-occlusive Mesenteric Ischemia after Splenic Metastasectomy for Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Abstract: A 68-year-old man presented with severe abdominal pain. Seven months earlier, he had received systemic chemotherapy for small-cell lung cancer with solitary metastasis to the spleen, followed by splenectomy. Abdominal computed tomography and abdominal arterial angiography showed diffuse ischemia of the mesenteric artery without apparent occlusion. The patient also suffered from septicemia caused by Enterococcus faecium. Therefore, a diagnosis of non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia (NOMI) induced by septicemia wa… Show more

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“…3,4 Case reports and small retrospective case series described the occurrence of NOMI especially after cardiac surgery 5 –10 and heart failure 6,11 but also in a variety of other acute critical illnesses. 11 –24…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…3,4 Case reports and small retrospective case series described the occurrence of NOMI especially after cardiac surgery 5 –10 and heart failure 6,11 but also in a variety of other acute critical illnesses. 11 –24…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2 Multiple case reports and small case series described the occurrence of NOMI after cardiac surgery, [3][4][5][6][7][8] heart failure, 4,9 and a variety of heterogeneous acute critical illnesses. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] Risk factors for NOMI appear to be older age as well as cardiovascular and/or chronic kidney disease (CKD) and it occurs especially in situations after major surgery, sepsis, and shock requiring vasopressor therapy. 23,24 Nonocclusive mesenteric ischemia is often only diagnosed in advanced stages of extensive intestinal necrosis, 24 leading to a devastating mortality rate up to 90% that has not changed over the past decades.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…1,2) Solitary splenic metastasis is extremely rare and only 31 cases have been reported previously. [3][4][5] The spleen is relatively resistant to metastatic seeding. Immune cells that play a role in immune surveillance are present in high density in the spleen, help to eliminate the cancer cells before they proliferate, and because of high concentration of antiangiogenic factors, the spleen creates an environment that is not advantageous to the growth of metastatic cancer cells.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%