Doppler sonography of the inferior mesenteric artery: a preliminary study
Autor: | M. Burke, G Breton, Alban Denys, B Aubin, M Lafortune |
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Rok vydání: | 1995 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Hemodynamics Inferior mesenteric artery Mesenteric Artery Superior medicine.artery Medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Superior mesenteric artery Prospective Studies Aorta Radiological and Ultrasound Technology business.industry Vascular disease Mesenteric Artery Inferior Ultrasonography Doppler Middle Aged medicine.disease Sagittal plane medicine.anatomical_structure Regional Blood Flow Circulatory system Female Radiology business Blood Flow Velocity Abdominal surgery |
Zdroj: | Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. 14(6) |
ISSN: | 0278-4297 |
Popis: | The purposes of this study were to look for the inferior mesenteric artery in patients undergoing abdominal sonography, to determine in what percentage of patients it is visible, and to characterize Doppler flow patterns of the inferior mesenteric artery in fasting patients without intestinal vascular disease. The inferior mesenteric artery was sought in 100 consecutive fasting adults (mean age, 54 years; 63 women, 37 men), as follows: the infrarenal aorta was scanned in a transverse plane; the origin of the inferior mesenteric artery was identified on the left anterolateral surface of the aorta; the inferior mesenteric artery was then traced caudally along the left side of the aorta. The inferior mesenteric artery and the superior mesenteric artery were studied with Doppler sonography in 50 different subjects without clinical or Doppler sonographic evidence of abdominal vascular disease (mean age, 44.9 years; 17 men, 33 women). Pulsed Doppler samples were taken within the inferior mesenteric artery in sagittal planes. The resistive index was calculated from the superior mesenteric artery and the inferior mesenteric artery. The inferior mesenteric artery was detected in all but eight patients (92%). In seven patients obesity prevented visualization. The eighth patient had undergone abdominal surgery on the previous day, limiting the sonographic examination. The diastolic flow in the inferior mesenteric artery was less than that in the superior mesenteric artery in all patients. The resistive index was 0.959 +/- 0.045 in the inferior mesenteric artery and 0.856 +/- 0.046 in the superior mesenteric artery (P < 0.01).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) |
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