A research team from Taiwan reported a 41-year-old man with poorly controlled diabetic mellitus who developed superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome due to rapid weight loss. The importance of this ...

THE use of translumbar aortography is sufficiently widespread so that a considerable literature has appeared in which indications, technic and complications have been thoroughly discussed. It is ...

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder with signs and symptoms of severe weight loss, restrictive eating, and fear of weight gain. While not everyone with AN is severely underweight, many ...

24-year-old Kaitlynn Heinl is just 65 pounds. She suffers from a rare congenital syndrome called Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome or SMA. Her journey started at age 12, but for more than a decade ...

Alice was doubled over in agony again, as she was rushed into hospital with that familiar griping pain and vomiting. Many Doctors would be unfamiliar with the illness, Superior Mesenteric Artery ...

Mesenteric (or intestinal) artery disease is a condition that develops when the arteries in the abdomen that supply the intestines become narrowed, or blocked, by an accumulation of a fatty substance ...