An Unusual Presentation of Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome

Median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS) is a rare benign condition typically affecting young females. It usually presents with abdominal symptoms of pain, nausea, and unintentional weight loss. They are usually diagnosed incidentally on CT of the abdomen done for abdominal pain. Here we present a ra...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Aditya, Bath, Anandbir S, Ahmed, Mohammad U, Kenth, Simran, Kalavakunta, Jagadeesh K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32789072
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9131
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author Mehta, Aditya
Bath, Anandbir S
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description Median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS) is a rare benign condition typically affecting young females. It usually presents with abdominal symptoms of pain, nausea, and unintentional weight loss. They are usually diagnosed incidentally on CT of the abdomen done for abdominal pain. Here we present a rare case of MALS which presented with an anginal type of chest pain without any abdominal symptoms leading to an extensive workup and incidental diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-74171282020-08-11 An Unusual Presentation of Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome Mehta, Aditya Bath, Anandbir S Ahmed, Mohammad U Kenth, Simran Kalavakunta, Jagadeesh K Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS) is a rare benign condition typically affecting young females. It usually presents with abdominal symptoms of pain, nausea, and unintentional weight loss. They are usually diagnosed incidentally on CT of the abdomen done for abdominal pain. Here we present a rare case of MALS which presented with an anginal type of chest pain without any abdominal symptoms leading to an extensive workup and incidental diagnosis. Cureus 2020-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7417128/ /pubmed/32789072 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9131 Text en Copyright © 2020, Mehta et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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