Do lab findings help in mesenteric ischemia?
- In the early stages of mesenteric ischemia there are no specific abnormal laboratory values, only those that are associated with the underlying condition from which the ischemia developed.
- Nonspecific laboratory abnormalities that develop over the course of the disease process are a result of the consequence of ischemia (i.e., tissue hypoxia, inflammation, necrosis, and volume sequestration) and include hemoconcentration, leukocytosis, and lactic acidosis.
