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Idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of mesenteric veins and pneumatosis intestinalis: A previously unreported association

2011; Oxford University Press; Volume: 5; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.crohns.2010.12.003

1876-4479

Raquel García-Castellanos, Raquel Larrosa López, Vicente Moreno de Vega, Isabel Ojanguren, Marta Piñol, Jaume Boix, Eugeni Domènech, Eduard Cabré,

Vascular anomalies and interventions

Idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of mesenteric veins is a very rare disease occurring in young male patients, with no more than eight cases reported in the world literature. It causes venous ischemia in the sigmoid colon and rectum that clinically resembles inflammatory bowel disease. Pneumatosis intestinalis is also a rare condition usually associated to a wide range of diseases including bowel ischemia. We herein report on a case of pneumatosis intestinalis associated to idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of mesenteric veins. To our knowledge, this is the first report of such an association, and the first one of idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of mesenteric veins occurring in a female patient as well.