Erschienen in:
11.10.2017 | Editorial
Guest editor’s introduction: abdominal aorta
verfasst von:
Jay P. Heiken
Erschienen in:
Abdominal Radiology
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Ausgabe 5/2018
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Excerpt
As abdominal radiologists, our interests are often directed to the organs of the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts. The aorta not only provides the blood supply to the splanchnic circulations that nourish these organs, but it is itself affected by many of the categories of disease processes that affect other abdominal organs including degeneration, inflammation, and trauma. Because of the aorta’s critical role of supplying blood to all abdominal organs, disease processes affecting the aorta often require urgent diagnosis and treatment in order to avoid end-organ compromise or death. …