CHARLOTTE Kent is “starving to death” in front of her parents after a fatal heart condition was tragically mistaken for ...

Charlotte Kent suffers with superior mesenteric artery syndrome symptoms SMA, having initially thought her symptoms were just bloating ...

A young woman is “starving to death” due to a fatal vascular condition – which she initially mistook as bloating. Charlotte ...

Charlotte Kent, 25, is bedridden after a five-year-long fight with a condition that means a blockage in one of her major ...

SMAS is a condition where substantial weight loss causes the fat pad surrounding the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) in the digestive tract to shrink. 1,2,3 This fat pad is an important part of ...

Diagnosis of ruptured superior mesenteric artery aneurysm mimicking a pancreatic mass. World Journal of Gastroenterology, 2010; 16 (18): 2298 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i18.2298 ...

Journal Reference: Wu et al. Superior mesenteric artery syndrome in a diabetic patient with acute weight loss. World Journal of Gastroenterology, 2009; 15 (47): 6004 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.15.6004 ...

Although symptomatic superior-mesenteric-artery insufficiency is rare, occurring in 0.002 to 0.03 per cent of hospital admissions, 14 severe atheromatous narrowing has been reported to occur in 37 ...

Selective angiography of the celiac or superior mesenteric artery performed by the injection of contrast medium through catheters placed in either of these vessels affords visualization of the ...

Mesenteric artery ischemia has two types: acute and chronic. The acute form of the disease appears suddenly and has severe symptoms. For most people, blood clots cause acute ischemia.