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- Title
Pediatric Chronic Abdominal Pain and Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome: A Review and Psychosocial Comparison.
- Authors
Mak, Grace Zee; Lucchetti, Amanda R.; Drossos, Tina; Fitzsimmons-Craft, Ellen E.; Accurso, Erin C.; Stiles-Shields, Colleen; Newman, Erika A.; Skelly, Christopher L.
- Abstract
Chronic abdominal pain (CAP) occurs in children and adolescents with a reported prevalence of 4% to 41% with significant direct and indirect costs to the child, family, and society. Median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS) is a vascular compression syndrome of the celiac artery that may cause symptoms of epigastric pain and weight loss and is a frequently overlooked cause of CAP in the pediatric population. We have observed that the psychosocial presentation of patients with MALS is notable for various psychiatric comorbidities. In this article, we review MALS as well as our study results of the psychosocial profile of 30 MALS patients. Our data suggest that children and adolescents with MALS have similar psychosocial profiles to children with other gastrointestinal disorders resulting in CAP. The overlap of physical and psychosocial symptoms of patients who have MALS with other CAP disorders leads us to recommend that patients with CAP should be evaluated for MALS. [Pediatr Ann. 2016;45(7):e257-e264.].
- Subjects
ABDOMINAL pain; CELIAC artery; CHRONIC pain; PEDIATRICS; DISEASE complications; STENOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Pediatric Annals, 2016, Vol 45, Issue 7, pe257
- ISSN
0090-4481
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.3928/00904481-20160613-01