Brogna Barbara, La Rocca Andrea, Giovanetti Vera, Ventola Marta, Bignardi Elio, Musto Lanfranco Aquilino
Department of Interventional and Emergency Radiology "San Giuseppe Moscati Hospital", Contrada Amoretta, 83100, Avellino, Italy.
Division of Radiology, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, 80138, Naples, Italy.
Radiol Case Rep. 2023 May 29;18(8):2677-2680. doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2023.05.020. eCollection 2023 Aug.
Superior mesenteric artery syndrome also known as Wilkie's syndrome (WS) and Nutcracker syndrome (NCS) are 2 rare vascular syndromes characterized by the reduction of the aortomesenteric space. In the WS the reduction of the aortomesenteric angle leads to compression of the third portion of the duodenum. In the NCS the reduced aortomesenteric space usually causes a left renal vein (LVR) entrapment and the clinical presentation is a left flank pain, micro/macrohematuria and proteinuria. Arterial hypertension can be an unusual manifestation of the NCS. Herein, we describe the case of a 37-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer and abdominal subocclusion, with a recent onset of arterial hypertension whose enhanced computed tomography (CT) showed a reduced angle between the abdominal aorta and superior mesenteric artery with the CT findings of both the WS and NCS.
肠系膜上动脉综合征也称为威尔基综合征(WS)和胡桃夹综合征(NCS),是两种罕见的血管综合征,其特征是主动脉肠系膜间隙变窄。在WS中,主动脉肠系膜角变窄导致十二指肠第三部受压。在NCS中,主动脉肠系膜间隙变窄通常导致左肾静脉受压,临床表现为左侧腰痛、镜下/肉眼血尿和蛋白尿。动脉高血压可能是NCS的一种不常见表现。在此,我们描述了一名37岁女性的病例,她有乳腺癌和腹部肠梗阻病史,近期出现动脉高血压,增强计算机断层扫描(CT)显示腹主动脉和肠系膜上动脉之间的夹角减小,CT表现符合WS和NCS。