Background: Acute mesenteric ischemia is a vascular emergency with high mortality because of ambiguous symptomatology and a lack of early diagnostic markers. Lactate dehydrogenase has been described as a mortality biomarker and bowel necrosis length too. Nevertheless, the association between them has been mildly studied. Our objective was to evaluate the association between serum lactate admission levels, bowel necrosis extension, and mortality. Additionally, we performed a mortality characterization. Materials and Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was designed. We reviewed patients' clinical records with acute mesenteric ischemia that attended a hospital between 2012 and 2018. We compared serum lactate admission levels with bowel necrosis length and mortality. A receiver operating characteristic curve was performed on the last association. As post hoc analysis, a classification and regression tree on mortality was fitted.
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Serum Lactate in mmol/l
Timeframe: 30 days
Bowel necrosis length in cm
Timeframe: 30 days
Percentage of patients that died between 30 postsurgical days, %
Timeframe: 30 days