Coeliac axis thrombosis associated with the combined oral contraceptive pill: a rare cause of an acute abdomen
| Autor: | C. H. Rance, Shailinder Singh, Arul Gs, Sommers J, Dolan G |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
| Předmět: |
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Oral contraceptive pill medicine.medical_treatment Celiac Plexus Magnetic resonance angiography Desogestrel Humans Medicine Splenic Infarction Abdomen Acute medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Peripheral Nervous System Diseases Thrombosis General Medicine medicine.disease Contraceptives Oral Synthetic Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Embolism Acute abdomen Splenic infarction Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Abdomen Female Combined oral contraceptive pill medicine.symptom business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Pediatric Surgery International. 13:285-287 |
| ISSN: | 1437-9813 0179-0358 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s003830050318 |
| Popis: | We report a case of coeliac axis thrombosis and splenic infarction presenting in a girl of 14 years who had been on the oral contraceptive pill (OCP), Marvelon (ethinyloestradiol 30 microg plus desogestrel 150 microg, Organon, Cambridge, UK), for 3 weeks. She had no other risk factors for thrombo-embolism. Diagnosis was made with duplex Doppler ultrasound and confirmed with dynamically-enhanced comput-ed tomography and magnetic resonance angiography, thus avoiding the need for percutaneous arteriography. Though mesenteric thrombo-embolic disease is recognised in association with use of the combined OCP, it has not previously been reported to affect the coeliac axis. Paediatricians and surgeons should be aware of the risks to young girls on the OCP, and consider it in their differential diagnosis of the acute abdomen. |
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