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A 74-year-old woman complains of painful and distended abdomen and nausea. She suffers from postinfarction and atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis and ischemic heart disease. Objectively, she is in a severe condition, her abdomen is distended, the abdominal wall is barely involved in the act of breathing. Laparoscopy detects a small amount of turbid exudate in the abdominal cavity, one of the small intestine loops is dark blue. Make the diagnosis:

Answer options

  1. Acute intestinal obstruction
  2. Ischemic abdominal syndrome
  3. Volvulus
  4. Mesenteric thrombosis
  5. Erysipelas
Correct answer

Mesenteric thrombosis

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