Spontaneous intraabdominal haemorrhage caused by segmental mediolytic arteritis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus--an underestimated entity of autoimmune origin?

Eur J Vasc Surg. 1994 Jan;8(1):96-100. doi: 10.1016/s0950-821x(05)80128-8.

Abstract

We describe the sixth known case of segmental mediolytic arteritis and the third in a survivor. A 70-year-old woman had intraabdominal bleeding due to a ruptured aneurysm of the omental artery. Interestingly, this patient also had a systemic lupus erythematosus. This report gives further support to the role of immune abnormalities underlying segmental mediolytic arteritis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aneurysm, Ruptured / diagnostic imaging
  • Aneurysm, Ruptured / etiology*
  • Aneurysm, Ruptured / pathology
  • Angiography, Digital Subtraction
  • Arteries / pathology
  • Arteritis / complications*
  • Arteritis / diagnostic imaging
  • Arteritis / immunology
  • Arteritis / pathology
  • Female
  • Hemorrhage / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / complications*
  • Omentum / blood supply
  • Rupture, Spontaneous