Bowel ischemia and infarction

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The most frequent and consistent complaint of patients with chronic bowel ischemia or acute bowel infarction is abdominal pain. With ischemia, the cause is often gradual vessel narrowing from atherosclerosis, and diagnosis can be a long process. With infarction, the cause may be thrombus or embolus, and diagnosis must be timely so obstruction does not lead to death of part of the bowel. Dr Carr summarizes methods of identifying and treating these disorders.