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Mesenteric ischemia after a cardiac operation: Conservative treatment with local vasodilation

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Acute mesenteric ischemia is a rare and often fatal event after cardiopulmonary bypass. We describe a diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm and present a patient with nonocclusive intestinal ischemia who had a successful conservative treatment.

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