Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Apr 2015
Multicenter Study Observational StudyOutcome of acute mesenteric ischemia in the intensive care unit: a retrospective, multicenter study of 780 cases.
In the intensive care unit (ICU), the outcomes of patients with acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) are poorly documented. This study aimed to determine the risk factors for death in ICU patients with AMI. ⋯ Acute mesenteric ischemia in ICU patients was associated with a 58 % ICU death rate. Age and SOFA severity score at diagnosis were risk factors for mortality. Plasma lactate concentration over 2.7 mmol/l was also an independent risk factor, but values in the normal range did not exclude the diagnosis of AMI.