Table 1.

Risk Factors That Predispose to Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome

Dietary disorders like anorexia nervosa, malabsorption syndromes severe wasting from catabolic states like cancers, burns

Spinal disease or deformity causing increased lordosis severe trauma, paralysis, head injury causing prolonged immobilization use of plaster body casts for scoliosis or vertebral fractures (cast syndrome)

Abdominal aortic aneurysms

Rapid linear body growth without accompanying weight gain