Haemosuccus pancreaticus due to aberrant vessels from the coeliac trunk: a rare cause of Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges

Haemosuccus pancreaticus (HP) is a rare life-threatening cause of intermittent upper Gastrointestinal bleeding. We report the first documented case of HP due to bleeding from aberrant vessels originating from the coeliac trunk feeding the head of the pancreas. Our patient underwent initial surgery a...

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Autores principales: Subasinghe, Duminda, Sivaganesh, Sivasuriya, Samarasekera, Dharmabandhu N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2012
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3855220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24968400
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjs013
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Sivaganesh, Sivasuriya
Samarasekera, Dharmabandhu N.
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description Haemosuccus pancreaticus (HP) is a rare life-threatening cause of intermittent upper Gastrointestinal bleeding. We report the first documented case of HP due to bleeding from aberrant vessels originating from the coeliac trunk feeding the head of the pancreas. Our patient underwent initial surgery and subsequent angio-embolization. This case report describes the challenges faced during the diagnosis and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-38552202013-12-09 Haemosuccus pancreaticus due to aberrant vessels from the coeliac trunk: a rare cause of Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges Subasinghe, Duminda Sivaganesh, Sivasuriya Samarasekera, Dharmabandhu N. J Surg Case Rep Case Reports Haemosuccus pancreaticus (HP) is a rare life-threatening cause of intermittent upper Gastrointestinal bleeding. We report the first documented case of HP due to bleeding from aberrant vessels originating from the coeliac trunk feeding the head of the pancreas. Our patient underwent initial surgery and subsequent angio-embolization. This case report describes the challenges faced during the diagnosis and treatment. Oxford University Press 2012-11 2012-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3855220/ /pubmed/24968400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjs013 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2012. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits non-commercial reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Subasinghe, Duminda
Sivaganesh, Sivasuriya
Samarasekera, Dharmabandhu N.
Haemosuccus pancreaticus due to aberrant vessels from the coeliac trunk: a rare cause of Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges
title Haemosuccus pancreaticus due to aberrant vessels from the coeliac trunk: a rare cause of Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges
title_full Haemosuccus pancreaticus due to aberrant vessels from the coeliac trunk: a rare cause of Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges
title_fullStr Haemosuccus pancreaticus due to aberrant vessels from the coeliac trunk: a rare cause of Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges
title_full_unstemmed Haemosuccus pancreaticus due to aberrant vessels from the coeliac trunk: a rare cause of Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges
title_short Haemosuccus pancreaticus due to aberrant vessels from the coeliac trunk: a rare cause of Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges
title_sort haemosuccus pancreaticus due to aberrant vessels from the coeliac trunk: a rare cause of gastrointestinal (gi) bleeding with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3855220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24968400
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjs013
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