The following are the major diseases or complications that may be contributed to by mesenteric infarction (bowel infarction):
Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).
- Sepsis (blood poisoning)
Mouth, esophagus (food pipe), stomach, and intestines (K00-K67; K90-K93).
- Intestinal gangrene with transit peritonitis – damage to the intestine due to inadequate supply leading to peritonitis.
- Ileus (intestinal obstruction)
Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99).
- Multi-organ failure (MODS, multi-organ dysfunction syndrome; MOF: multiple organ failure) – simultaneous or sequential failure or severe functional impairment of multiple vital organ systems of the body.
