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Mesenteric inflammatory veno-occlusive disease (MIVOD) is a rare but increasingly recognized cause of intestinal ischemia. It can be defined as phlebitis or venulitis affecting either the bowel or mesentery, without any evidence of coexisting arterial inflammatory involvement or an obvious predisposing cause. We report the clinicopathological characteristics of five patients who, after presenting with an acute abdomen, underwent exploratory laparotomy and resection of ischemic bowel. The distinctive histopathological characteristics of MIVOD were identified in all five patients. We review the literature on this under-reported condition.
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PMID:Mesenteric inflammatory veno-occlusive disease as a cause of acute abdomen: report of five cases. 1624 52

Mesenteric inflammatory veno-occlusive disease (MIVOD) is a relatively recently known and not very often diagnosed form of ischemic bowel disease of low incidence und unknown etiology. We present the case of a patient who after presentation of inconclusive signs of epigastric pain and rectal bleeding suddenly developed right abdominal pain with local peritonism. Suspecting intestinal ischemia or perforated appendicitis we first performed laparoscopy, which showed an inflammable tumor of cecum, ascending colon and appendix with massive adhesions to the abdominal wall. We performed an open right hemicolectomy with primary anastomosis. The patient developed a deep vein thrombosis of the vena tibialis post. and vena saphena parva. After 12 months our patient is free of complaints and recurrence. Investigations carried out showed no evidence of hypercoagulopathy. The presentation of MIVOD can range from chronic inflammatory bowel disease with recurrent abdominal pain in combination with nausea, emesis and bloody diarrhea to acute abdomen. Therefore diagnostic misinterpretation and mistherapy as well as underdiagnosis is common. Histologic investigation shows a variable inflammatory infiltration of multiple veins of the intestinal wall and the mesentery as well as thrombotic vessel occlusion in different stages without involvement of the arteries. All forms of hypercoagulopathy, parasitic disease, sepsis and malignancy have to be excluded. Therapeutic success can only be achieved with surgical resection of the affected bowel, whereon in general no recurrence will occur.
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PMID:[Mesenteric inflammatory veno-occlusive disease (MIVOD)--a rare cause of intestinal ischemia]. 1639 91

Mesenteric inflammatory veno-occlusive disease is a rare but recognized cause of intestinal ischemia, who can be defined as phlebitis or venulitis affecting mesentery or the bowel, without any evidence of coexisting of an obvious predisposing cause or a coexisting arterial inflammatory involvement. We report the case of a male patient, 63 year old, admitted in the Emergency County Hospital of Craiova, who after presenting with an acute abdomen, underwent exploratory laparotomy and resection of the ischemic sigmoid, temporary colostomy and after four months we reintroduced descendent colon in the digestive transit. The resected specimen of the patient was examined histopathologically, and distinctive histopathological characteristics of the mesenteric inflammatory veno-occlusive disease were identified.
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PMID:Mesenteric inflammatory veno-occlusive disease as a rare cause of acute abdomen. 1750 58