Ozaki Nobuchika, Wakita Noboru, Yamada Akitoshi, Tanaka Yosuke
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe Rosai Hospital, 4-1-23 Kagoike-dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe 651-0053, Hyogo, Japan.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2010 Apr;10(4):656-8. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2009.219907. Epub 2010 Jan 13.
Three patients had severe abdominal pain of sudden onset. Computed tomography showed localized dissection in the superior mesenteric artery in two patients and in the celiac artery in one. With conservative therapy abdominal symptoms were self-remitted. All patients were successfully treated with medication and have been doing well during follow-up.