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Failure to improve outcome in acute mesenteric ischaemia: seven-year review.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the prognosis of acute mesenteric ischaemia has changed over the past seven years.
DESIGN: Retrospective study.
SETTING: Teaching hospital, Scotland.
SUBJECTS: 57 patients who presented to this hospital between January 1987 and December 1993 with acute mesenteric ischaemia.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Morbidity, mortality and prognostic features.
RESULTS: 46 of the 57 patients died. Only 18(32%) patients were accurately diagnosed before operation or death. Clinical presentation, white cell count, and serum amylase activity were not helpful in the diagnosis. Only 3 patients had mesenteric angiography, and none were given lytic agents or vasodilators.
CONCLUSION: Mortality from acute mesenteric ischaemia has not changed during the past two decades and in the absence of an accurate diagnostic test is unlikely to do so.
DESIGN: Retrospective study.
SETTING: Teaching hospital, Scotland.
SUBJECTS: 57 patients who presented to this hospital between January 1987 and December 1993 with acute mesenteric ischaemia.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Morbidity, mortality and prognostic features.
RESULTS: 46 of the 57 patients died. Only 18(32%) patients were accurately diagnosed before operation or death. Clinical presentation, white cell count, and serum amylase activity were not helpful in the diagnosis. Only 3 patients had mesenteric angiography, and none were given lytic agents or vasodilators.
CONCLUSION: Mortality from acute mesenteric ischaemia has not changed during the past two decades and in the absence of an accurate diagnostic test is unlikely to do so.
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