openalexFrontiers in Medicine2026-07-24
Case Report: Vascular abdominal pain in systemic sclerosis—chronic mesenteric ischemia from high-grade superior mesenteric artery stenosis with coexisting aortomesenteric narrowing
Ji Li, J L Zhang, Shengguang Li, Li Zhang, Yadan Zou, Ting Long, et al.
Gastrointestinal involvement is common in systemic sclerosis (SSc), but severe abdominal pain should not be attributed automatically to dysmotility or malabsorption. We report a 72-year-old woman with long-standing limited cutaneous SSc who developed recurrent severe abdominal pa…