Abstract
Background Intestinal angiodyspalsia is a vascular artero-venous malformation of the enteric wall smaller than 1 cm whose main symptom is enterorrhagy. Diagnosis is based on colonoscopy and mesenteric selective arteriography. Recently, spiral angio-CT has reached a good diagnostic sensitivity and specificity. Radical treatment is still surgical resection. Endoscopic approaches are frequently employed even though relapse of hemorrhage and perforation can occur. Super-selective embolization represents another possible therapeutic option, despite the low risk of segmentary intestinal ischemia.
Highlights
Intestinal angiodyspalsia is a vascular artero-venous malformation of the enteric wall smaller than 1 cm whose main symptom is enterorrhagy.Diagnosis is based on colonoscopy and mesenteric selective arteriography
The patient underwent colonoscopy that revealed a reddish area in the caecum that could be referred to angiodysplasia, and two small peduncolated polyps (0.5 and 0.8 mm) that were resected
Published: 24 August 2011 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-11-S1-A42 Cite this article as: Patrizi et al.: Right colon angiodysplasia and lower limb chronic obstructive arteropathy: simultaneous endovascular treatment
Summary
Right colon angiodysplasia and lower limb chronic obstructive arteropathy: simultaneous endovascular treatment. G Patrizi1*, M Fazi, L Fiengo, G Di Rocco, F Pelle, D Giannotti, L Venturini, F Frezzotti, R Giordano, A Redler, FM Salvatori. From XXIII Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Lecce, Italy. From XXIII Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Lecce, Italy. 2-4 December 2010
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