"ABDOMINAL INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION" AND NARROWING OF THE CELIAC AND MESENTERIC ARTERIES
Authors: William B. Seymour, Averill A. Liebow
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1937)

Case-Reports1 January 1937"ABDOMINAL INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION" AND NARROWING OF THE CELIAC AND MESENTERIC ARTERIESWILLIAM B. SEYMOUR, M.D., AVERILL A. LIEBOW, M.D.WILLIAM B. SEYMOUR, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, AVERILL A. LIEBOW, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-10-7-1033 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptDeprivation of the blood supply to the viscera is important among the causes of abdominal pain. The effects of sudden vascular occlusion are dramatic and well known. More obscure are the symptoms and pathology of gradual occlusion. Since the literature heretofore has treated these in a very stepmotherly fashion, the correlation of available clinical and pathological data may be of value.CASE REPORTA spinster of 76 was admitted to the medical ward complaining chiefly of abdominal pain after eating. She had been in good health until about six months before admission. At this time she began to experience numbness...References1. ADENOT : Thrombose de l'artère mésenterique inférieure et gangrène du colon, Rev. de méd., 1890, x, 252-277. Google Scholar2. BUCH M: Enteralgie und Kolik. II. Das arteriosklerotische Leibweh, Arch. f. Verdauungskrankh., 1904, x, 466-507. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. CHIENE J: Complete obliteration of the celiac and mesenteric arteries: the viscera receiving their blood supply through the extra-peritoneal system of vessels, Jr. Anat. and Physiol. (Cambridge), 1868-69, III (second series, II), 65-72. Google Scholar4. GILBRIDE JJ: Gastrointestinal disturbances due to arteriosclerosis, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1909, lii, 955-957. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. GOODMAN EH: Angina abdominis, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1918, n.s., clv, 524-528. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. HAMBURGER WW: Angina abdominalis with chronic duodenal disease simulating gall bladder disease, Med. Clin. N. Am., 1920, iii, 1682-1686. Google Scholar7. HECHT V: Über einen Fall von Kollateralkreislauf im Gebiet der Arteria coeliaca, Anat. Anz., 1905, xxvi, 570-576. Google Scholar8. HOWSE HG: Thrombosis of the superior mesenteric artery with plugging of the left femoral, external and common iliac arteries; gangrene of the leg; severe ulceration of the intestines, London Path. Soc. Trans., 1878, xxix, 101-105. Google Scholar9. KLEIN E: Embolism and thrombosis of the superior mesenteric artery, Surg., Gynec. and Obst., 1921, xxxiii, 385-405. Google Scholar10. KUNTZEN H: Über temporären Verschluss der Mesenterialarterien, Deutsch. Ztschr. f. Chir., 1928, ccix, 56-64. CrossrefGoogle Scholar11. LÉPINE : See Adenot.1 Google Scholar12. MEYER J: Intermittent claudication (thromboangiitis obliterans) involving the intestinal tract, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1924, lxxxiii, 1414-1416. CrossrefGoogle Scholar13. MOYNIHAN B: Abdominal operations, Vol. II, 1926, W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia and London. Google Scholar14. MÜLLER K: Über abdominale Arteriosklerose. 16. Congrès International de Médecine, Budapest, 1909. Section 6. Médecine interne. I, 157-176. Google Scholar15. NAZARI A: Arteriosclerosi e occlusione delle arterie mesenteriche. Policlinico (Roma). Sez. med., 1907, xiv, 42-44, 87-92. Google Scholar16. ORTNER N: Zur Klinik der Angiosklerose der Darmarterien (Dispragia intermittens angiosklerotica intestinalis), Wien. klin. Wchnschr., 1902, xv, 1166-1168. Google Scholar17. SCHNITZLER J: Zur Symptomatologie des Darmarterienverschlusses, Wien. med. Wchnschr., 1901, li, 505-509, 568-572. Google Scholar18. STÖRRING FK: Zur Aetiologie und Symptomatologie des "zeitweiligen" Mesenterialarterienverschlusses, Mitteil. a. d. Grenzgeb. d. Med. u. Chir., 1932-1934, xliii, 583-590. Google Scholar19. THANE GD: Obliteration of coeliac axis, Proc. Anat. Soc. Great Britain and Ireland in Jr. Anat. and Physiol., 1888, xxii, (n.s. II), xvii-xviii. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: WILLIAM B. SEYMOUR, M.D.; AVERILL A. LIEBOW, M.D.Affiliations: New Haven, Connecticut*Received for publication April 22, 1936.From the Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byÜber die Sklerose der EingeweidearterienPeriphere GefäßkrankheitenMesenteric vascular disease 1 January 1937Volume 10, Issue 7 Page: 1033-1041 Keywords Abdominal pain Blood Eating Mesenteric arteries ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 January 1937 PDF downloadLoading ...