Author(s)

Serife Degirmencioglu¹, Banu Boyuk¹, Hande Atalay², Muhammed Ates¹, Murat Altay¹, Aslan Celebi¹, Ismail Ekizoglu¹

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Gaziosmanpasa Taksim Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
²Department of Internal Medicine, Gebze Fatih Government Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey.

Celiac axis compression syndrome, one of the reasons of mesenteric ischemia, is an extremely rare etiology of abdominal pain. Primary pathological mechanism is the external compression of the celiac trunk by median arcuate ligament. The diagnosis of this condition is usually difficult and depends on angiographic findings and computerized tomography (CT) evaluations. Here we report a celiac axis compression syndrome case, presenting with chronic abdominal pain and weight loss, which was successfully treated by surgery.

Abdominal Pain, Mesenteric Ischemia, Median Arcuate Ligament, Celiac Artery Compression

Degirmencioglu, S. , Boyuk, B. , Atalay, H. , Ates, M. , Altay, M. , Celebi, A. and Ekizoglu, I. (2016) Uncommon Ethiology in Abdominal Pain: Celiac Axis Compression Syndrome. Open Journal of Gastroenterology, 6, 1-4. doi: 10.4236/ojgas.2016.61001.