Systemic Amyloidosis: A Rare Presentation of Mesenteric Angina
A 64-year-old man presented with an eight-month history of increasing postprandial epigastric pain and a 15 kg weight loss. Computed tomography of the abdomen, panendoscopy and mesenteric angiography failed to explain the cause of the patient's mesenteric angina. Systemic amyloidosis involving...
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| description | A 64-year-old man presented with an eight-month history of increasing postprandial epigastric pain and a 15 kg weight loss. Computed tomography of the abdomen, panendoscopy and mesenteric angiography failed to explain the cause of the patient's mesenteric angina. Systemic amyloidosis involving intestinal small vasculature without larger arterial involvement was diagnosed at autopsy after the patient died of an asystolic cardiac arrest. Mesenteric angina without evidence of ischemic enteritis or pseudo-obstruction is a rare manifestation of amyloidosis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6d96b2d5e7994689981aa2895051813b2025-02-03T06:12:08ZengWileyCanadian Journal of Gastroenterology0835-79002002-01-01161068368510.1155/2002/125806Systemic Amyloidosis: A Rare Presentation of Mesenteric AnginaChristopher N Andrews0Jack N Amar1Malcolm MM Hayes2Robert A Enns3Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaDepartment of Gastroenterology, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaDepartment of Pathology, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaDepartment of Gastroenterology, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaA 64-year-old man presented with an eight-month history of increasing postprandial epigastric pain and a 15 kg weight loss. Computed tomography of the abdomen, panendoscopy and mesenteric angiography failed to explain the cause of the patient's mesenteric angina. Systemic amyloidosis involving intestinal small vasculature without larger arterial involvement was diagnosed at autopsy after the patient died of an asystolic cardiac arrest. Mesenteric angina without evidence of ischemic enteritis or pseudo-obstruction is a rare manifestation of amyloidosis.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2002/125806 |
| spellingShingle | Christopher N Andrews Jack N Amar Malcolm MM Hayes Robert A Enns Systemic Amyloidosis: A Rare Presentation of Mesenteric Angina Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology |
| title | Systemic Amyloidosis: A Rare Presentation of Mesenteric Angina |
| title_full | Systemic Amyloidosis: A Rare Presentation of Mesenteric Angina |
| title_fullStr | Systemic Amyloidosis: A Rare Presentation of Mesenteric Angina |
| title_full_unstemmed | Systemic Amyloidosis: A Rare Presentation of Mesenteric Angina |
| title_short | Systemic Amyloidosis: A Rare Presentation of Mesenteric Angina |
| title_sort | systemic amyloidosis a rare presentation of mesenteric angina |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2002/125806 |
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