Medhat Mostafa, Fawzy Nasser, Taseer M Mumtaz, Yasser Khalifa, Saeed Alghamdi, Saleem Abdul Sattar.
Acute mesentric ischemia presented with mild abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea.
Pak J Surg Jan ;31(4):279-81.

Mesentric ischemia is also known as mesenteric vascular disease, is a medical condition in which injury to small intestine occurs due to defi cient blood supply to small or large intestine. It can occur suddenly known as acute mesenteric ischemia or has agradual onset known as chronic mesenteric ischemia. Acute disease usually present with severe abdominal pain Th romboembolic disease is common in westeren world. It is rare in Pakistan, middle east countries and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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