OBJECTIVES: to characterize the clinical presentation of @entity1 with @entity432 of the @entity6029 ( @entity6029 ). DESIGN: prospective study. MATERIALS: twenty-four consecutive @entity1 admitted to Blekinge County Hospital, Karlskrona, Sweden, with @entity432 of the @entity6029 , over a three-year period from April 1999 through March 2002. METHODS: clinical data were registered prospectively. Incidence, diagnostic procedures and factors associated with survival were analysed. RESULTS: the diagnosis was verified at operation in 20, and at autopsy in 4 @entity1 . The incidence was 5.3 per 100 000 inhabitants per year. Among the 20 @entity1 with @entity887 , @entity955 was present in 95%, synchronous @entity887 in 30% and @entity1229 treatment in 10%. D-dimer was elevated on admission in 13/13. Four @entity1 were diagnosed at first consultation. Fifteen underwent curative revascularisation (6) or bowel resection only (9). Five were alive at one-year follow-up, of whom one had @entity5277 . Length of bowel ischaemia predicted institutional (p = 0.004) and one-year mortality (p = 0.005). CONCLUSIONS: the incidence was higher than expected. @entity432 predominated. Old age, @entity955 , severe @entity490 and synchronous embolus suggest the diagnosis of @entity697 . Length of bowel ischaemia predicted outcome.

Acute @entity432 of the XXXX : a prospective study in a well defined population.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity5277 :: ('MESH:D012778', 'Disease') :: ['short bowel syndrome'] @entity697 :: ('MESH:D000208', 'Disease') :: ['acute bowel ischaemia'] @entity887 :: ('MESH:D004617', 'Disease') :: ['embolic events', 'embolic disease'] @entity955 :: ('MESH:D001281', 'Disease') :: ['atrial fibrillation'] @entity490 :: ('MESH:D015746', 'Disease') :: ['abdominal pain'] @entity432 :: ('MESH:D001157', 'Disease') :: ['Embolic occlusions', 'acute thrombo-embolic occlusion'] @entity6029 :: ('MESH:D013478', 'Disease') :: ['superior mesenteric artery', 'SMA'] @entity1229 :: ('MESH:D014859', 'Chemical') :: ['warfarin']
@entity6029 :: (MESH:D013478,Disease) :: ['superior mesenteric artery']
