Mesenteric Infarction

Abstract
MESENTERIC infarction is a relatively infrequent disease comprising approximately 1 in every 1000 hospital admissions. The mortality rate remains high at about 80 per cent.1 The first successful resection for this disease was reported in 1895.2 Yet a collective review in 1954 was able to report only 154 cases in which survival followed resection.3 Embolectomy was first suggested by Ryvlin4 in 1943 and Klass5 in 1951, but the first successful one was recently reported by Shaw and Rutledge.6 Mesenteric vascular occlusion may be classified according to the primary event as follows: arterial (embolic or thrombotic); venous; or mixed. Embolism is . . .