Fatal Injury of the Small Intestine during Retropubic Sling Placement

We describe a case of injury of the small intestine in a patient who underwent placement of Align R retropubic urethral support system (BARD). Absence of characteristic symptoms of the bowel injury and peritonitis led to a rapid development of sepsis, multiple organ failure, and death. Although the...

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Autores principales: Kascak, P., Kopcan, B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4628685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26557396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/164545
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description We describe a case of injury of the small intestine in a patient who underwent placement of Align R retropubic urethral support system (BARD). Absence of characteristic symptoms of the bowel injury and peritonitis led to a rapid development of sepsis, multiple organ failure, and death. Although the placement of midurethral sling is a minimally invasive surgery, good diagnostic skills, proper evaluation of indications, safe performance of the procedure, and thorough postsurgical monitoring are paramount for safe and effective outcome of the surgery.
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spelling pubmed-46286852015-11-09 Fatal Injury of the Small Intestine during Retropubic Sling Placement Kascak, P. Kopcan, B. Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report We describe a case of injury of the small intestine in a patient who underwent placement of Align R retropubic urethral support system (BARD). Absence of characteristic symptoms of the bowel injury and peritonitis led to a rapid development of sepsis, multiple organ failure, and death. Although the placement of midurethral sling is a minimally invasive surgery, good diagnostic skills, proper evaluation of indications, safe performance of the procedure, and thorough postsurgical monitoring are paramount for safe and effective outcome of the surgery. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4628685/ /pubmed/26557396 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/164545 Text en Copyright © 2015 P. Kascak and B. Kopcan. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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