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Hi @sclindajanssen
Thanks for the info, definitely something he needs to address. I had a rather tumultuous consultation with a gastroenterologist who gave me the diagnosis. 10 years and I finally had a diagnosis especially after being made to feel like a hypochondriac, it was even suggested I had Munchausen at one point. The consultant made a sweeping statement saying she had reviewed the angiogram, but doesn't think the MALs is the cause of the abdominal pain and the organs are getting enough blood from an alternate supply. If I had not been on this website I may have just left it at that, however I had learnt a lot before our consult. I simply asked her what the mean velocity was for the artery. I've never seen a professional flap so much or go bright red as she did. I asked if she had measured using doppler flowmetry (which I knew they had not) or was she making an assumption. To which I got no answer. Just to highlight there are some professionals out there that don't have a clue.