Tag Mark F. Conrad

Introduction Clinically significant chronic mesenteric ischemia (CMI) is a relatively uncommon disease that was characterized by G.H Goodman in 1918 as “abdominal angina.” In contemporary practice, the term intestinal angina is used to describe the classic symptom of chronic abdominal…

Introduction Acute aortic dissection is the most common catastrophic event affecting the aorta, with an incidence exceeding that of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Without treatment, the majority of patients with aortic dissections will die within 3 months of presentation, and…