Hemosuccus Pancreaticus in Chronic Pancreatitis: An Uncommon Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding

We present a case of a 69-year-old female who arrived in hemorrhagic shock with symptoms of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Imaging on admission was diagnostic of a large splenic artery pseudoaneurysm, which was presumed to have bled into the pancreatic duct given clinical symptoms of upper gastroi...

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Autores principales: Lee, William, Qi-Huang, Sunny, Ahmed, Zaid, Shah, Salman S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7708967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33274116
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/JCIS_169_2020
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author Lee, William
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description We present a case of a 69-year-old female who arrived in hemorrhagic shock with symptoms of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Imaging on admission was diagnostic of a large splenic artery pseudoaneurysm, which was presumed to have bled into the pancreatic duct given clinical symptoms of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The pseudoaneurysm was successfully treated with coil embolization resulting in resolution of clinical symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-77089672020-12-02 Hemosuccus Pancreaticus in Chronic Pancreatitis: An Uncommon Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding Lee, William Qi-Huang, Sunny Ahmed, Zaid Shah, Salman S. J Clin Imaging Sci Case Report We present a case of a 69-year-old female who arrived in hemorrhagic shock with symptoms of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Imaging on admission was diagnostic of a large splenic artery pseudoaneurysm, which was presumed to have bled into the pancreatic duct given clinical symptoms of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The pseudoaneurysm was successfully treated with coil embolization resulting in resolution of clinical symptoms. Scientific Scholar 2020-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7708967/ /pubmed/33274116 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/JCIS_169_2020 Text en © 2020 Published by Scientific Scholar on behalf of Journal of Clinical Imaging Science https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Hemosuccus Pancreaticus in Chronic Pancreatitis: An Uncommon Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding
title Hemosuccus Pancreaticus in Chronic Pancreatitis: An Uncommon Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding
title_full Hemosuccus Pancreaticus in Chronic Pancreatitis: An Uncommon Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding
title_fullStr Hemosuccus Pancreaticus in Chronic Pancreatitis: An Uncommon Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding
title_full_unstemmed Hemosuccus Pancreaticus in Chronic Pancreatitis: An Uncommon Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding
title_short Hemosuccus Pancreaticus in Chronic Pancreatitis: An Uncommon Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding
title_sort hemosuccus pancreaticus in chronic pancreatitis: an uncommon cause of gastrointestinal bleeding
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7708967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33274116
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/JCIS_169_2020
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