Spontaneous intramural jejunal haematoma: a case report

BACKGROUND: Spontaneous intramural intestinal haematoma is a rare complication of anticoagulation therapy. A misdiagnosis may lead to an unnecessary and even hazardous surgical intervention. CASE PRESENTATION: An 85 year old lady presented to us with acute abdomen. She was on Warfarin and was found...

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Autores principales: Birla, Rashmi P, Mahawar, Kamal K, Saw, Elena YW, Tabaqchali, Mohamed A, Woolfall, Philip
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19077259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-389
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author Birla, Rashmi P
Mahawar, Kamal K
Saw, Elena YW
Tabaqchali, Mohamed A
Woolfall, Philip
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Mahawar, Kamal K
Saw, Elena YW
Tabaqchali, Mohamed A
Woolfall, Philip
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description BACKGROUND: Spontaneous intramural intestinal haematoma is a rare complication of anticoagulation therapy. A misdiagnosis may lead to an unnecessary and even hazardous surgical intervention. CASE PRESENTATION: An 85 year old lady presented to us with acute abdomen. She was on Warfarin and was found to have grossly deranged clotting parameters. Computed Tomography Scan revealed a long loop of markedly thick-walled proximal jejunum. A diagnosis of spontaneous intramural jejunal haematoma was made. CONCLUSION: She was successfully treated with conservative management with Vitamin K and blood products.
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spelling pubmed-26288982009-01-21 Spontaneous intramural jejunal haematoma: a case report Birla, Rashmi P Mahawar, Kamal K Saw, Elena YW Tabaqchali, Mohamed A Woolfall, Philip Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Spontaneous intramural intestinal haematoma is a rare complication of anticoagulation therapy. A misdiagnosis may lead to an unnecessary and even hazardous surgical intervention. CASE PRESENTATION: An 85 year old lady presented to us with acute abdomen. She was on Warfarin and was found to have grossly deranged clotting parameters. Computed Tomography Scan revealed a long loop of markedly thick-walled proximal jejunum. A diagnosis of spontaneous intramural jejunal haematoma was made. CONCLUSION: She was successfully treated with conservative management with Vitamin K and blood products. BioMed Central 2008-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2628898/ /pubmed/19077259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-389 Text en Copyright © 2008 Birla et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Birla, Rashmi P
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Tabaqchali, Mohamed A
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Spontaneous intramural jejunal haematoma: a case report
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title_full Spontaneous intramural jejunal haematoma: a case report
title_fullStr Spontaneous intramural jejunal haematoma: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous intramural jejunal haematoma: a case report
title_short Spontaneous intramural jejunal haematoma: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628898/
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