A meandering mesenteric artery

Received 30 November 2009; accepted 1 January 2010. published online 11 January 2010.

Abstract

An 83-year-old woman with a history of peripheral vascular disease presented for evaluation of lower left extremity discomfort. A peripheral multidetector CT angiography showed a dilated inferior mesenteric artery acting as an important source of retrograde collateral perfusion secondary to a celiac axis stenosis.

Keywords: Angiography, Celiac axis stenosis, Meandering mesenteric artery, Multidetector computed tomography, MDCT, Peripheral vascular disease

Division of Cardiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, 1124 W Carson Street, RB2, Torrance, CA 90502, USA

Corresponding author.

Conflict of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. Dr. Budoff is on the Speaker's Bureau (modest) for GE Healthcare.

PII: S1934-5925(10)00007-9

doi:10.1016/j.jcct.2010.01.006

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