Abdominal Surgical Emergencies in Patients with Hematological Disorders: An Exacting Experience for Surgeons

Management of surgical emergencies in patients with underlying hematological disorder is challenging due to increased incidence of peri-operative morbidity. We report two cases of abdominal surgical emergencies with pre-existing hematological conditions. The first case report is that of a patient di...

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Autores principales: Nadarajan, Abinaya R, Varghese, Gigi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6453618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31007975
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4017
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description Management of surgical emergencies in patients with underlying hematological disorder is challenging due to increased incidence of peri-operative morbidity. We report two cases of abdominal surgical emergencies with pre-existing hematological conditions. The first case report is that of a patient diagnosed with pelvic abscess in a previously diagnosed case of Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia and the second is a case of intestinal infarction previously diagnosed with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH).
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spelling pubmed-64536182019-04-19 Abdominal Surgical Emergencies in Patients with Hematological Disorders: An Exacting Experience for Surgeons Nadarajan, Abinaya R Varghese, Gigi Cureus General Surgery Management of surgical emergencies in patients with underlying hematological disorder is challenging due to increased incidence of peri-operative morbidity. We report two cases of abdominal surgical emergencies with pre-existing hematological conditions. The first case report is that of a patient diagnosed with pelvic abscess in a previously diagnosed case of Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia and the second is a case of intestinal infarction previously diagnosed with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). Cureus 2019-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6453618/ /pubmed/31007975 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4017 Text en Copyright © 2019, Nadarajan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Abdominal Surgical Emergencies in Patients with Hematological Disorders: An Exacting Experience for Surgeons
title Abdominal Surgical Emergencies in Patients with Hematological Disorders: An Exacting Experience for Surgeons
title_full Abdominal Surgical Emergencies in Patients with Hematological Disorders: An Exacting Experience for Surgeons
title_fullStr Abdominal Surgical Emergencies in Patients with Hematological Disorders: An Exacting Experience for Surgeons
title_full_unstemmed Abdominal Surgical Emergencies in Patients with Hematological Disorders: An Exacting Experience for Surgeons
title_short Abdominal Surgical Emergencies in Patients with Hematological Disorders: An Exacting Experience for Surgeons
title_sort abdominal surgical emergencies in patients with hematological disorders: an exacting experience for surgeons
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6453618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31007975
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