Clinical Study

Predictive Risk Factors of Intestinal Necrosis in Patients with Mesenteric Venous Thrombosis: Retrospective Study from a Single Center

Table 2

Univariate analysis for computed tomography finding of mesenteric vascular thrombosis in 78 patients.

Variable Intestinal necrosis
N=58(%)
NO intestinal necrosis
N=20(%)
Overall
N=78(%)
P value

Thinning of bowel wall (%)18(31)018(23)0.004
Thickening of bowel wall (%)34(59)14(70)48(62)0.432
Dilated bowel loops (%)40(69)4(20)44(56)<0.001
Pneumatosis intestinalis (%)16(28)1(5)17(22)0.056
Decreased bowel wall enhancement (%)42(72)6(30)48(62)0.001
Ascites (%)50(86)14(70)64(82)0.173
Feces sign (%)20(34)4(20)24(31)0.273
Portal venous gas (%)6(1)06(1)0.308
Combined PV and SMV thrombosis (%)26(45)4(20)30(38)0.263
Thrombosis of SMV (%)58(100)20(100)78(100)0.424

PV: portal venous; SMV: superior mesenteric venous.