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A Critically Ill Child with Gangrenous Appendicitis Masquerading as Hollow Viscous Perforation

BACKGROUND: Severe complications of acute appendicitis (AA) hitherto well described are less common in clinical practice nowadays. When a septic child is encountered with a short history of abdominal symptoms and disproportionate signs of peritonitis further complicated by radiological findings caus...

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Autores principales: Shrestha, Ashish Lal, Maharjan, Santosh, Pant, Anil Dev, Nepali, Pankaj Bahadur
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7781716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33425398
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8857058
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author Shrestha, Ashish Lal
Maharjan, Santosh
Pant, Anil Dev
Nepali, Pankaj Bahadur
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description BACKGROUND: Severe complications of acute appendicitis (AA) hitherto well described are less common in clinical practice nowadays. When a septic child is encountered with a short history of abdominal symptoms and disproportionate signs of peritonitis further complicated by radiological findings causing a diagnostic conundrum, management becomes exceedingly demanding. Case Presentation. A 10-year-old previously healthy boy presented to the emergency room with generalized abdominal pain associated with fever and jaundice for a day. Blood workup revealed leucopenia, hyperbilirubinemia, hyponatremia, and elevated CRP. Initial radiological evaluation suggested hollow viscous perforation. He was diagnosed to have hollow viscous perforation peritonitis in severe sepsis. At laparotomy, generalized peritoneal contamination was found, the source of which could be traced down to the gangrenous perforated appendix. CONCLUSION: Complicated appendicitis, in children, can present with baffling findings. Timely identification of an ill child, adequate workup, prompt resuscitation, and source control are imperative for a successful outcome.
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spelling pubmed-77817162021-01-08 A Critically Ill Child with Gangrenous Appendicitis Masquerading as Hollow Viscous Perforation Shrestha, Ashish Lal Maharjan, Santosh Pant, Anil Dev Nepali, Pankaj Bahadur Case Rep Crit Care Case Report BACKGROUND: Severe complications of acute appendicitis (AA) hitherto well described are less common in clinical practice nowadays. When a septic child is encountered with a short history of abdominal symptoms and disproportionate signs of peritonitis further complicated by radiological findings causing a diagnostic conundrum, management becomes exceedingly demanding. Case Presentation. A 10-year-old previously healthy boy presented to the emergency room with generalized abdominal pain associated with fever and jaundice for a day. Blood workup revealed leucopenia, hyperbilirubinemia, hyponatremia, and elevated CRP. Initial radiological evaluation suggested hollow viscous perforation. He was diagnosed to have hollow viscous perforation peritonitis in severe sepsis. At laparotomy, generalized peritoneal contamination was found, the source of which could be traced down to the gangrenous perforated appendix. CONCLUSION: Complicated appendicitis, in children, can present with baffling findings. Timely identification of an ill child, adequate workup, prompt resuscitation, and source control are imperative for a successful outcome. Hindawi 2020-12-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7781716/ /pubmed/33425398 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8857058 Text en Copyright © 2020 Ashish Lal Shrestha et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Shrestha, Ashish Lal
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Pant, Anil Dev
Nepali, Pankaj Bahadur
A Critically Ill Child with Gangrenous Appendicitis Masquerading as Hollow Viscous Perforation
title A Critically Ill Child with Gangrenous Appendicitis Masquerading as Hollow Viscous Perforation
title_full A Critically Ill Child with Gangrenous Appendicitis Masquerading as Hollow Viscous Perforation
title_fullStr A Critically Ill Child with Gangrenous Appendicitis Masquerading as Hollow Viscous Perforation
title_full_unstemmed A Critically Ill Child with Gangrenous Appendicitis Masquerading as Hollow Viscous Perforation
title_short A Critically Ill Child with Gangrenous Appendicitis Masquerading as Hollow Viscous Perforation
title_sort critically ill child with gangrenous appendicitis masquerading as hollow viscous perforation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7781716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33425398
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8857058
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