Clinical presentation is nonspecific in most cases and can be characterized by an initial discrepancy between severe abdominal pain and minimal clinical findings. In general, patients with AMI have an ...

Missed mesenteric ischemia is considered to have a mortality rate of 100%.2 The overall operative mortality rate is roughly 50%2 and varies depending on such factors as the extent of gangrene, length ...

HYDROGEN peroxide has come into common usage in the treatment of neonatal intestinal obstruction due to inspissated meconium since Olim and Ciuti 1 described its use in 2 cases of meconium ileus in ...

It was with these considerations in mind that we undertook to examine our own experience with arterial emboli to determine what place, if any, the operation of embolectomy should play in the therapy ...