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Superior Mesenteric Artery Dissection After Lumbar Puncture

We hereby present a case of iatrogenic dissection of the superior mesenteric artery dissection in a 63-year-old female undergoing a lumbar puncture (LP). She presented with severe diffused abdominal pain accompanied by lower back pain, nausea and vomiting a few hours after undergoing an LP due to on...

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Autores principales: Ramirez, Luz M, Casillas, Sebastian, Berjaoui, Hussein, Varon, Joseph, Surani, Salim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7195201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32373410
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7507
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author Ramirez, Luz M
Casillas, Sebastian
Berjaoui, Hussein
Varon, Joseph
Surani, Salim
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description We hereby present a case of iatrogenic dissection of the superior mesenteric artery dissection in a 63-year-old female undergoing a lumbar puncture (LP). She presented with severe diffused abdominal pain accompanied by lower back pain, nausea and vomiting a few hours after undergoing an LP due to ongoing headaches. Abdominal CT showed evidence of hemoperitoneum. She was then transferred to another facility and while in route received one unit of packed red blood cellsdue to drop in hemoglobin levels from 15 to 11 gm/dl. Physicians should consider the possibility of arterial variations and the level at which spinal tap is performed during interventions. Acute abdominal pain is a significant, common complaint that should be appropriately investigated.
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spelling pubmed-71952012020-05-05 Superior Mesenteric Artery Dissection After Lumbar Puncture Ramirez, Luz M Casillas, Sebastian Berjaoui, Hussein Varon, Joseph Surani, Salim Cureus Emergency Medicine We hereby present a case of iatrogenic dissection of the superior mesenteric artery dissection in a 63-year-old female undergoing a lumbar puncture (LP). She presented with severe diffused abdominal pain accompanied by lower back pain, nausea and vomiting a few hours after undergoing an LP due to ongoing headaches. Abdominal CT showed evidence of hemoperitoneum. She was then transferred to another facility and while in route received one unit of packed red blood cellsdue to drop in hemoglobin levels from 15 to 11 gm/dl. Physicians should consider the possibility of arterial variations and the level at which spinal tap is performed during interventions. Acute abdominal pain is a significant, common complaint that should be appropriately investigated. Cureus 2020-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7195201/ /pubmed/32373410 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7507 Text en Copyright © 2020, Ramirez 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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Superior Mesenteric Artery Dissection After Lumbar Puncture
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title_short Superior Mesenteric Artery Dissection After Lumbar Puncture
title_sort superior mesenteric artery dissection after lumbar puncture
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7195201/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7507
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