Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome: An Unusual Cause of Abdominal Pain

Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is caused by compression of the transverse duodenum at the angle between the aorta and the SMA that may lead to postprandial or constant epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting anorexia and weight loss. The diagnosis is often missed given nonspecific symptoms and...

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Autores principales: Laique, Sobia N, Vozzo, Catherine F, Chahal, Prabhleen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354450
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11505
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description Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is caused by compression of the transverse duodenum at the angle between the aorta and the SMA that may lead to postprandial or constant epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting anorexia and weight loss. The diagnosis is often missed given nonspecific symptoms and low reported prevalence. The authors present a case of a 29-year-old female who presented with seven months of epigastric pain and significant weight loss. The patient was diagnosed with SMA syndrome with the aid of upper endoscopy, upper gastrointestinal barium study and computed tomography imaging. 
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spelling pubmed-77442102020-12-21 Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome: An Unusual Cause of Abdominal Pain Laique, Sobia N Vozzo, Catherine F Chahal, Prabhleen Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is caused by compression of the transverse duodenum at the angle between the aorta and the SMA that may lead to postprandial or constant epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting anorexia and weight loss. The diagnosis is often missed given nonspecific symptoms and low reported prevalence. The authors present a case of a 29-year-old female who presented with seven months of epigastric pain and significant weight loss. The patient was diagnosed with SMA syndrome with the aid of upper endoscopy, upper gastrointestinal barium study and computed tomography imaging.  Cureus 2020-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7744210/ /pubmed/33354450 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11505 Text en Copyright © 2020, Laique 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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