Abdominal angina - a rare cause of chronic abdominal pain

ABSTRACT

We report here a case of chronic postprandial abdominal pain and weight loss of more than one year duration. He was diagnosed to have abdominal angina [chronic mesenteric ischemia] on CT angiography. Open surgical revascularization procedure-right common iliac mesenteric polytetrafluoroethylene [PTFE] bypass graft achieved positive short and long-term outcome with follow-up of twenty two months