The three arteries that provide oxygen-rich blood to the small and large intestines are called mesenteric arteries. When ...

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 ...

ALTHOUGH patients with mesenteric vascular occlusions are ... infarction of the entire small intestine and part of the large intestine from the pylorus to the transverse colon, in the absence ...

Calvin Coffey and Dr. Peter O'Leary — are forever changing the way we understand an important tissue in the human body called the mesentery. In a recent study, Coffey and O'Leary suggest that ...

Colon erosions are small, shallow sores or ulcers on the lining of your colon, or large intestine ... of your colon near the mesentery, the tissue that holds your intestines to the inner wall ...

[3,4] Acute arterial insufficiency is associated with an approximately 60% mortality rate, and accounts for 50% to 60% of all small intestine mesenteric ischemic events (Figure 1). There appears ...

Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is a condition that affects the duodenum — the section of the small intestine that joins the stomach. The syndrome is caused by the compressing of the ...

Recent studies had investigated immune responses in mesenteric lymph nodes in models of ulcerative colitis, another chronic inflammatory bowel disease that exclusively affects the large intestine.

CLAIRE SMITH:So it is capable of stretching, so if you've eaten a large meal ... this is the small intestine running along here. This is our special structure called the mesentery, which delivers ...