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Abdominal Angina: A Rare Cause Of Chronic Abdominal Pain, Ziaur Rehman, Abdul Rehman Alvi, Ziad Sophie
Abdominal Angina: A Rare Cause Of Chronic Abdominal Pain, Ziaur Rehman, Abdul Rehman Alvi, Ziad Sophie
Section of General Surgery
We report here a case of chronic postprandial abdominal pain and weight loss of more than one year duration. He was diagnosed to have abdominal angina (chronic mesenteric ischemia) on CT angiography. Open surgical revascularization procedure-right common iliac mesenteric polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) bypass graft achieved positive short and longterm outcome with follow-up of twenty two months.