MESENTERIAL VEIN-THROMBOSIS WITH HEMORRHA GIC INFARCTION OF JEJUNE ASCOMPLICATION OF ORAL-CONTRACEPTIVES

Venous thrombosis is a documented complication of oral contraceptives in adolescents and young women. The frequency of thrombosis increases in presence of additional risk factors as e.g. smoking and obesity. Th is is a case-report of a mesenterial vein thrombosis in a 24 years old woman on low estrogen dose triphasic oral contraceptives combined wit h smoking and obesity. Wide jejunal haemorrhagic infarction with acute abdomen and volume deficiency shock conducted to diagnosis finally by emergency laparotomy. Wide resection of jejune was required.