Non-traumatic splenic rupture in a patient on oral anticoagulation

BACKGROUND: Splenic injury is normally associated with trauma, but spontaneous splenic rupture has been described in various systemic diseases. CASE PRESENTATION: A 56-year-old male on oral anticoagulation presented to the emergency department with epigastric pain, nausea, and left upper quadrant te...

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Autores principales: de Kubber, Marije M, Kroft, Lucia JM, de Groot, Bas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2013
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Brief Research Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3685544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23694768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-6-16
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description BACKGROUND: Splenic injury is normally associated with trauma, but spontaneous splenic rupture has been described in various systemic diseases. CASE PRESENTATION: A 56-year-old male on oral anticoagulation presented to the emergency department with epigastric pain, nausea, and left upper quadrant tenderness. There was no history of trauma. Contrast-enhanced CT imaging revealed a large subcapsular haematoma of the spleen. Oral anticoagulation was antagonised with vitamin K and the patient was discharged in good condition after 3 days of clinical observation. CONCLUSION: Non-traumatic splenic rupture is a rare complication of oral anticoagulation.
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spelling pubmed-36855442013-06-25 Non-traumatic splenic rupture in a patient on oral anticoagulation de Kubber, Marije M Kroft, Lucia JM de Groot, Bas Int J Emerg Med Brief Research Report BACKGROUND: Splenic injury is normally associated with trauma, but spontaneous splenic rupture has been described in various systemic diseases. CASE PRESENTATION: A 56-year-old male on oral anticoagulation presented to the emergency department with epigastric pain, nausea, and left upper quadrant tenderness. There was no history of trauma. Contrast-enhanced CT imaging revealed a large subcapsular haematoma of the spleen. Oral anticoagulation was antagonised with vitamin K and the patient was discharged in good condition after 3 days of clinical observation. CONCLUSION: Non-traumatic splenic rupture is a rare complication of oral anticoagulation. Springer 2013-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3685544/ /pubmed/23694768 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-6-16 Text en Copyright ©2013 de Kubber et al.; licensee Springer. 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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title Non-traumatic splenic rupture in a patient on oral anticoagulation
title_full Non-traumatic splenic rupture in a patient on oral anticoagulation
title_fullStr Non-traumatic splenic rupture in a patient on oral anticoagulation
title_full_unstemmed Non-traumatic splenic rupture in a patient on oral anticoagulation
title_short Non-traumatic splenic rupture in a patient on oral anticoagulation
title_sort non-traumatic splenic rupture in a patient on oral anticoagulation
topic Brief Research Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3685544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23694768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-6-16
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