eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Medical Case Reports 2014-10-28 2 11 229 231 10.12691/ajmcr-2-11-1 AJMCR20142111 article Linda Kokaine linda.kokaine@gmail.com 1 Andis Lemanis 1 Sergejs Sapovalovs 1 Arnis Abolins 2 Arturs Balodis 3 Department of Surgery, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia Department of Pathology, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a rare finding in gastrointestinal tract usually asymptomatic, although sometimes causes gastrointestinal bleeding or pain. Even more rarely it can be found in other abdominal organs like liver, pancreas, spleen etc. We present a unique case of acute abdominal pain - a patient with torsion of arteriovenous malformation of gastroepiploic arteries with following ischemia and thrombosis causing severe pain. A search at the literature has not yielded any other case report describing similar cause of the acute abdomen. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajmcr/2/11/1/ajmcr-2-11-1.pdf abdominal / gastroepiploic arteriovenous malformation AVM abdominal pain