The visceral arteries supply the abdominal organs with blood and play a crucial role in digestion and nutrient supply. Various diseases can affect these arteries, which can lead to significant health problems.
Compression syndrome of the truncus coeliacus
(Dunbar syndrome, ligamentum arcuatum mediale syndrome):
The truncus coeliacus is the artery that supplies the liver, spleen and partly the stomach. If the course of the diaphragm is congenitally too close to the artery, the artery can be repeatedly pinched off, which in the long term can lead to an occlusion of the vessel that is not caused by atherosclerosis. In the rarest cases, patients then have abdominal discomfort associated with eating, but this is definitely not caused by a circulatory disorder but by irritation and hypertrophy of the nerve plexus around the truncus couliacus. Splitting of the diaphragmatic muscle and removal of the nerve plexus can be the treatment for a certain group of patients after detailed clarification.
In very rare cases, aneurysms can develop in the flow area of the superior mesenteric artery to the coeliac trunk as a result of vascular occlusion of the coueliac trunk (Sutton-Kadirr syndrome). The treatment of choice here is to restore blood flow to the truncus coeliacus and eliminate the vasodilatation.
Conventional and endovascular treatment of constricting and dilating pathologies of all visceral arteries.
Surgical treatment of ligamentum arcuatum syndrome (Dunbar syndrome)
Surgical and endovascular treatment of intestinal artery aneurysms (splenic artery, renal artery, hepatic artery, intestinal arteries)
Surgical, endovascular and combined (hybrid) treatment of constrictions and occlusions of the truncus coeliacus and the superior mesenteric artery
