Arterial reconstructions for pediatric splanchnic artery occlusive disease. 2018

Dawn M Coleman, and Jonathan L Eliason, and James C Stanley
Section of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Electronic address: dawnbarn@med.umich.edu.

Pediatric splanchnic arterial occlusive disease is uncommon and a rare cause of clinically relevant intestinal ischemia. This study was undertaken to better define the clinical manifestations and appropriate treatment of celiac artery (CA) and superior mesenteric artery (SMA) occlusive disease in children. Clinical courses of 30 consecutive children undergoing operations for splanchnic arterial occlusive disease at the University of Michigan from 1992 to 2017 were retrospectively analyzed. Vascular reconstructions were performed for splanchnic arterial disease in 18 boys and 12 girls, 1.5 to 16 years of age (mean, 7.5 ± 4.1 years). Isolated splanchnic arterial disease was uncommon (2 children), being more often associated with abdominal aortic coarctations (19 children) or ostial renal artery stenoses (25 children). Primary splanchnic arterial reconstructions (30) included aortic reimplantation of SMAs (15) or celiacomesenteric arteries (2), aortoceliac and aortomesenteric bypasses (7), reimplantation of the CA as a patch over the stenotic SMA orifice (3), and patch angioplasty of the CA (2) or SMA (1). There was no perioperative mortality. Two groups (I and II) were identified for study. Group I children (14) experienced symptomatic intestinal ischemia, manifested by various combinations of chronic postprandial abdominal discomfort (14), ischemia-related intestinal bleeding (2), or failure to thrive (4). Four children in group I became symptomatic after known CA and SMA occlusive disease was left untreated at the time they underwent earlier interventions for renovascular hypertension. Seven secondary redo interventions were undertaken for recurrent symptoms in six group I children. Only one major periprocedural complication occurred: segmental colon infarction. The assisted patency rate of reconstructed arteries in group I children was 93%, and intestinal ischemic symptoms resolved in every child. Group I follow-up from the most recent splanchnic arterial reconstruction averaged 4.3 years. Group II children (16) without manifestations of intestinal ischemia underwent prophylactic splanchnic arterial reconstructions in concert with combined aortic and renal artery procedures (11), isolated abdominal aortic reconstructions (3), or renal artery reconstructions alone (2). Group II children experienced no major perioperative morbidity and remained asymptomatic postoperatively, and none required secondary splanchnic artery interventions. Group II follow-up averaged 7.4 years. Pediatric splanchnic artery occlusive lesions are often associated with developmental aortic and renal artery occlusive disease. Carefully conducted therapeutic and prophylactic reconstructive procedures are appropriate in children having splanchnic arterial occlusive disease.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007223 Infant A child between 1 and 23 months of age. Infants
D008297 Male Males
D008641 Mesenteric Vascular Occlusion Obstruction of the flow in the SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION by ATHEROSCLEROSIS; EMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; STENOSIS; TRAUMA; and compression or intrinsic pressure from adjacent tumors. Rare causes are drugs, intestinal parasites, and vascular immunoinflammatory diseases such as PERIARTERITIS NODOSA and THROMBOANGIITIS OBLITERANS. (From Juergens et al., Peripheral Vascular Diseases, 5th ed, pp295-6) Mesenteric Vascular Occlusions,Occlusion, Mesenteric Vascular,Occlusions, Mesenteric Vascular,Vascular Occlusion, Mesenteric,Vascular Occlusions, Mesenteric
D008824 Michigan State bounded on the north by the Great Lakes, on the east by Canada, on the south by Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio, and on the west by Lake Michigan and Wisconsin.
D011183 Postoperative Complications Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery. Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D002445 Celiac Artery The arterial trunk that arises from the abdominal aorta and after a short course divides into the left gastric, common hepatic and splenic arteries. Arteries, Celiac,Artery, Celiac,Celiac Arteries
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D002675 Child, Preschool A child between the ages of 2 and 5. Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D005260 Female Females
D006785 Hospitals, University Hospitals maintained by a university for the teaching of medical students, postgraduate training programs, and clinical research. University Hospitals

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