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. 2018 Jun 18;34(3):217–223. doi: 10.1159/000490318

Table 1.

Differential diagnosis of acute mesenteric ischemia

Abdominal pathologies intestinal occlusion or perforation, inflammation of intra-abdominal organs, biliary colic, incarcerated hernia

Vascular pathologies aortic aneurysm, aortic dissection, mesenteric vein thrombosis, portal vein thrombosis, vasculitis

Urinary tract pathologies renal colic, urinary retention, testicular torsion

Traumatic pathologies blunt force trauma

Gynecological pathologies extrauterine pregnancy, tubal rupture

General medicine pathologies diabetic pseudoperitonitis, acute intermittent porphyria, lead poisoning

Thoracic pathologies pleurisy, pericarditis, acute myocardial infarction