Derek O Pipolo, Sara Guevara, Lana Vasiljevic, Andres E Di Pietrantonio, Walter Brennan, Humberto Asmus, Alexia McCann-Molmenti, Young Min Cho, Koichiro Shinozaki, Kei Hayashida, Yu Okuma, Muhammad Shoaib, Lance B Becker, Mary E Decker, Hermoon A Worku, Petra Majdak, Grace Donzelli, Akash Patel, Sherwin Davoud, Andres Vaca-Zorrilla, Sascha S Beutler, Ernesto P Molmenti, Santiago J Miyara
In this case study, we describe a 25-year-old male who was admitted due to a severe traumatic brain injury, requiring invasive intracranial pressure monitoring. At 48 hours posttrauma, he developed intracranial hypertension refractory to medical treatment without tomographic changes in the brain. Subsequently, intra-abdominal hypertension and tomographic signs of abdominal surgical pathology were observed. An exploratory laparotomy was performed with an intraoperative diagnosis of acute mesenteric ischemia...
September 2023: International Journal of Angiology: Official Publication of the International College of Angiology, Inc