A Case Report of Omental Infarction in a Young Woman with Portal Thrombosis

Omental infarction is a rare cause of acute abdomen which can be secondary to torsion around its vascular pedicle, thrombosis, vasculitis of omental vessels or omental venous outflow obstruction. The symptoms may mimic acute appendicitis, cholecyctitis, diverticulitis or ovarian cyst rupture. In this report we will present a patient who was admitted with right side abdominal pain after taking oral contraceptive pills and was diagnosed to have high hematocrit level, portal vein thrombosis and omental infarction. She underwent surgery and the gangrenous part of the omentum was resected. The patient’s postoperative recovery was uneventful and she was discharged with anticoagulant.