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Pylephlebitis and acute mesenteric ischemia in a young man with inherited thrombophilia and suspected foodborne illness.
Journal of vascular surgery - 1 Jun 2012
Pradka Sarah P, Trankiem Christine T, Ricotta John J
Abstract excerpt
We report on a young man who developed complicated pylephlebitis after foodborne illness. Despite antibiotics and resection of the focus of infectious colitis, he developed extensive small bowel infarction. He was treated with anticoagulation, local thrombolytic infusion, and resection of irreversibly ischemic small bowel. Thrombophilia workup demonstrated heterozygosity for factor V Leiden and the prothrombin...
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