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Abstract
Prevention of ischemic bowel complications following abdominal aortic reconstruction
requires identification of the patient at high risk for developing the complication;
on precise, gentle, meticulous operative technique; on knowledge of bowel blood supply;
on determining when the IMA must be reconstructed or when it can be safely ligated;
and on methods of preserving or preventing damage to bowel blood supply.
Patients at greatest risk for developing bowel ischemia following aortic reconstruction
include those with a history of visceral angina, those with a patent IMA (40% to 52%),
those being treated for ruptured aneurysm, those whose postreconstructive IMA stump
mean blood pressures are less than 40 torr, those in whom Doppler flow signals cease
following division or occlusion of the IMA, and those who have SMA occlusive disease
and arteriographic documentation of IMA to SMA flow in the MMA (Table II). Patients
at least risk include those in whom the IMA is already occluded (48% to 60%), those
whose postreconstructive IMA stump pressures are more than 40 torr, those in
whom Doppler flow signals persist after IMA occlusion, those who have flow in the
MMA from the SMA to the IMA (provided this vessel is not injured), and those undergoing
aortic reconstruction for aortoiliac occlusive disease.
IIRisk prediction for bowel ischemia after aortic reconstruction
| Patients at greatest risk |
| Symptoms of visceral ischemia |
| Aortic aneurysm (ruptured) |
| Patent IMA |
| Zero operative Doppler flow |
| IMA stump pressure <40 torr |
| IMA to SMA MMA flow |
| Patients at least risk |
| Thrombosed IMA |
| Operative Doppler flow present |
| IMA stump pressure >40 torr |
| SMA to IMA MMA flow |
| Reconstruction for occlusive disease |
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☆Presented at the annual meetings of the International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery and the Society lor Vascular Surgery. Boston, Mass., June 17–18, 1982.
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