NBME 24 Inferior mesenteric and superior mesenteric (NBME Answers)

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A 68-year-old woman comes to the physician ...
Inferior mesenteric and superior mesenteric🔍
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submitted by deathbystep1(14),

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paperbackwriter Spot on! +

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honey-crusted lesion Great explanation! There's also a slide about this in the 100 Anatomy Concepts pdf but doesn't go into as much detail as this explanation. Thanks! +

djtallahassee Good explanation but I think an AAA would be more likely superior mesenteric and hepatic. the SMA and IMA are more than 3 cm apart (L1 to L4ish), Triple A affecting both would be very large. I blew this question because I saw 3cm and jumped to AAA, didnt even see it was a sclerosis thing. Put the two closest arteries and moved on +

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teh lony nigth daem em csoeho IMA nda MSA si het afct tyhe ypsulp het nsetitien ihwch si eht momcno etsi rfo mciescih icreetmens i.sseead

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neonem What's tough about these answer choices though is that you have 2 different viable combos. +

codyluvr95 The ectatic aorta might also mean AAA below the renals, affecting the IMA, +2

sherry Also since there is this ectatic aorta, the arteries involved need to be adjacent to one another. If there is a choice as in celiac and SMA, it could also be correct. +

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submitted by targetmle(6),

if the option had SMA and celiac trunk, would that be correct?

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submitted by bharatpillai(22),

One way to look at this would be to go back to pathogenesis of fatty streaks. They are most commonly found at the aortic bifurcation, so basically the lower down you go down the abdominal aorta, more turbulent the flow, causing higher potential for atherosclerosis and stenosis of branch vessels. Also, renal artery stenosis is well described which is given off after the celiac trunk so safe to say celiac trunk is spared in any kind of atherosclerotic stenosis.

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Why aer the IAM dan SAM tmos lkiely to eb fedtcafe ni ehr o?itncdino

sattanki Again, not too sure, but I think they were describing a patient with chronic intestinal angina, which is classically from atherosclerosis of the IMA/SMA. +3

mcl I was also thinking about which areas have crappy blood supply (watershed areas), which I assume would be worse off in the case of chronic mesenteric ischemia. If you look on page 357 of FA 2019, SMA & IMA at the splenic flexure is a watershed area; the other is rectosigmoid junction (sigmoid branch from IMA and superior rectal). +

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nwinkelmann I didn't know how to approach this either, but now this is my thought process: Patient has pain after eating. If it's not due to an ulcer (which is the only thing I could come up with because I didn't know what else it was talking about), why would eating cause pain? Well... eating causes increased GIT activity which means increased blood flow. As you pointed out, the patient has HTN and CAD, indicating likely extensive atherosclerosis. This is important because why would eating leading to increased blood flow cause pain, when usually it doesn't? Well... atherosclerosis in the heart leads to stable angina. This presentation sounds like a "stable angina" of the abdomen. +