Health Dictionary
Reliable, easy-to-read patient information on common medical conditions — written in plain language, free of jargon, and grounded in current evidence. Browse the most frequent diagnoses, understand what they mean for everyday life, and learn which steps and questions help you have a focused conversation with your doctor.
Mesenteric vein thrombosis
Introduction
Causes
Trauma
- Abdominal trauma
Electromagnetic, Physics, trauma, Radiation Causes
- Decompression sickness
Surgical, Procedure Complication
- Surgery (operation)
- Abdominal surgery
- Splenectomy, immediate postoperative
Infected organ & Abscesses
- Abscess, intraperitoneal, RL quadrant
- Peritonitis, acute
- Abscess, abdominal, visceral
- Cholangitis, ascending
- Diverticulitis, colon
Granulomatous & Inflammatory Disorders
- Pancreatitis, acute
Neoplastic Disorders
- Malignancy/cancer
- Metastasis to peritoneum
- Adenocarcinoma, cecum
- Adenocarcinoma, colon
- Polycythemia vera
- Prolymphocytic leukemia
- Thrombocythemia, essential
- Adenocarcinoma, pancreatic
- Carcinoid, metast. to liver
Allergic, Collagen & Auto-Immune Disorders
- Crohns disease (Regional enteritis)
- Crohns colitis/large bowel
- Anticardiolipin thrombogenic syndrome
- Circulating anticoagulant
Metabolic & Storage Disorders
- Homocystinuria/homocystinemia
Hereditary, Familial & Genetic Disorders
- Sickle cell / thalassemia disease
- Sickle cell anemia
- Factor II mutation (20210)
- Thrombophlebitis / hereditary / recurrent
- Antithrombin III deficiency, familial
- Factor V Leiden mutation
- Protein-C deficiency
- Protein-S deficiency
Arteriosclerotic, Vascular & Venous Disorders
- Thrombophlebitis, deep vein
- Portal vein thrombosis
- Pelvic thrombophlebitis
Functional & Physiologic Variant Disorders
- Pregnancy
Vegetative, Autonomic & Endocrine Disorders
- Portal hypertension
Reference to Organ System
- Cirrhosis
- Hyperviscosity syndrome
- Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
- Thrombocytosis
Pathophysiologic
- Hypercoagulable / thrombophilia status
Drugs
- Oral contraceptive administration
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]