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We report a case of 58-year-old woman with a ruptured dissecting aneurysm of the middle colic artery (MCA). Her initial manifestation was sudden and severe right-sided abdominal pain, followed by hemorrhagic shock and acute anemia. Abdominal CT showed a right retroperitoneal hemorrhage. Emergency catheter angiography and therapeutic coil embolization of the middle colic artery were performed and micro aneurysms were enhanced in the jejunal branch. Immunological tests showed nothing abnormal. Follow-up angiography after 3 months showed that the micro aneurysms had disappeared. The patient was diagnosed as having segmental arterial mediolysis (SAM), because no definitive evidence of atherosclerosis and polyarteritis nodosa were observed. SAM is a rare disease of unknown etiology. The arterial lesions developing in elderly patients are characterized by segmental lysis of the abdominal splanchnic arteries resulting in aneurysms, and acute bleeding in a skip pattern. Multiple aneurysms and abdominal pain due to the rupture of these lesions in SAM resemble the clinical findings in polyarteritis nodosa. Differential diagnosis of the two diseases is important because steroid therapy is not beneficial for SAM.
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PMID:[A case report of segmental arterial mediolysis]. 1760 60

Segmental arterial mediolysis (SAM) is a rare nonatherosclerotic and noninflammatory arteriopathy that was proposed by Slavin et al. [Segmental mediolytic arteritis. A clinical pathologic study, Lab. Invest. 35 (1976) 23-29]. It mainly involves abdominal visceral arteries and is characterized by lytic degeneration of the media, resulting in intraabdominal bleeding. We collected 27 unrecognized cases of SAM by reviewing microscopic slides of cases of ruptured aneurysms of visceral arteries, except splenic and hepatic aneurysms, reported in the Japanese literature. This paper describes the pathological and clinical features of these cases. The symptom at onset was abdominal pain associated with intraabdominal bleeding in all cases. The most involved artery was the middle colic artery, accounting for 14 (50%), followed by gastric and gastroepiploic arteries, (6 and 5, respectively). Seventy-eight percent of aneurysms were of dissecting type and the rest of pseudoaneurysm type, except for one. Multiple aneurysms were found in 9 cases (33.3%). Pathological lesions were acute in all. The outcome of those who had surgery was good, even in those who had surgery for 1 ruptured aneurysm, leaving the others unmanaged. The relationship of SAM to fibromuscular dysplasia is discussed. Secondary changes in the wall of the accompanying vein to the affected artery are briefly described. It is emphasized that the majority of aneurysms of abdominal visceral arteries are gathered together as SAM as a definite clinical and pathological entity.
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PMID:Segmental arterial mediolysis: unrecognized cases culled from cases of ruptured aneurysm of abdominal visceral arteries reported in the Japanese literature. 1792 Jul 81