Arterio-enteric Fistula – An Unusual Complication of Improper Wound Closure
| Autor: | GL Tiwari, Atul Gupta |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Fistula medicine.medical_treatment digestive oral and skin physiology Enteric fistula Case Report General Medicine medicine.disease Anus Gastroenterology Hematochezia Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Internal medicine medicine Gastric acid Wound closure Cholecystectomy medicine.symptom business Complication human activities |
| Popis: | Gastro-intestinal(GI) bleeding may originate anywhere from oral cavity to anus. Classically if the cause of bleeding is somewhere below the ligament of Treitz, the stools are maroon or bright red in colour and it is described as lower GI bleeding or hematochezia. Any vigorous upper GI bleeding with rapid transit of blood, gets insufficient time for conversion of red hemoglobin to brown hematin by gastric acid, and hence also presents as hematochezia. We present a case of hematochezia which was caused by an arterio-enteric fistula between left inferior epigastric artery and small bowel, causing life threatening lower GI bleeding in a lady who had undergone abdominal hysterectomy and cholecystectomy. |
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