Prediction of need for bowel resection in acute superior mesenteric artery occlusion: A retrospective study of 48 Japanese patients.
Susumu WatadaHideaki ObaraJun OkuiKyosuke HosokawaKentaro MatsubaraHirohisa HaradaNaoki FujimuraTaku FujiiTatsuya ShimogawaraYuko KitagawaPublished in: Annals of gastroenterological surgery (2022)
The time from symptom onset to diagnosis and occlusion site contributed to high sensitivity in determining the need for bowel resection in patients with acute SMA occlusion. Further prospective studies are warranted to investigate the clinical impact of this model.