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Sclerosing mesenteritis is a condition in which tissue that holds the small intestines in place, called the mesentery, becomes inflamed and forms scar tissue. The condition also is called mesenteric panniculitis. Sclerosing mesenteritis is rare, and it's not clear what causes it.
Sclerosing mesenteritis is a chronic inflammatory condition that affects your mesentery, which is part of your peritoneum. It can cause abdominal pain and swelling.
Sclerosing mesenteritis is a rare, non-neoplastic inflammatory and fibrotic disease that affects the mesentery. Sclerosing mesenteritis can affect the integrity of the gastrointestinal lumen and mesenteric vessels by a mass effect.
Sclerosing mesenteritis refers to an inflammatory disorder of unknown cause affecting the mesentery. It usually involves the small bowel mesentery but may also affect the mesocolon. The lesion is a mixture of chronic inflammation (mesenteric panniculitis), fat necrosis (mesenteric lipodystrophy), and fibrosis (retractile mesenteritis).
Sclerosing mesenteritis is a rare condition that may lead to blockage in the small intestine. Learn about treatment at Mayo Clinic.
Sclerosing mesenteritis (SM), an idiopathic nonneoplastic condition affecting 0.18% to 3.14% of the population, is characterized by chronic fat necrosis, inflammation, and fibrosis most commonly of the mesentery of the small intestine.
Mesenteric panniculitis —also known as sclerosing mesenteritis— is a rare and chronic illness. It causes inflammation and scarring of the fatty tissue of your mesentery. Mesentery is a fold of membranes that anchors your small intestine to your abdominal wall.
Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis (ISM) is a rare disease of the small intestine, characterized by chronic inflammation and eventual fibrosis of the mesentery. [1] It has also been called mesenteric lipodystrophy, or retractile mesenteritis.
Sclerosing mesenteritis, also known as mesenteric panniculitis or retractile mesenteritis , is an uncommon idiopathic disorder characterized by chronic non-specific inflammation involving the adipose tissue of the bowel mesentery.
Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis (ISM) is an extremely rare condition in which mesenteric adipose tissue undergoes necrotic and fibrotic changes. It is also known as “retractile mesenteritis”, “mesenteric panniculitis” or “fat necrosis of the mesentery”.