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Idiopathic Bilateral Adrenal Haemorrhage in an Otherwise Healthy Patient

This is the case of a lady with a bilateral adrenal haemorrhage with no known cause. She presented with abdominal pain that progressed to back pain with rising serum lactate. The initial and repeat computerized tomography (CT) scans were unremarkable apart from small bilateral renal stones. She was...

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Autores principales: Renwick, Clay, Yeates, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9440983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36081640
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28758
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description This is the case of a lady with a bilateral adrenal haemorrhage with no known cause. She presented with abdominal pain that progressed to back pain with rising serum lactate. The initial and repeat computerized tomography (CT) scans were unremarkable apart from small bilateral renal stones. She was ultimately treated conservatively in the hospital and discharged. On a follow-up appointment and CT scan, it was discovered that she had small bilateral adrenal haemorrhages. She was followed in the clinic until symptomatic resolution which did eventuate, and she was subsequently discharged. The case highlights that with no antecedent factors or past medical history combined with no hemodynamic instability, bilateral adrenal haemorrhages would be a diagnosis to reach but should remain in the differential. 
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spelling pubmed-94409832022-09-07 Idiopathic Bilateral Adrenal Haemorrhage in an Otherwise Healthy Patient Renwick, Clay Yeates, Alexander Cureus General Surgery This is the case of a lady with a bilateral adrenal haemorrhage with no known cause. She presented with abdominal pain that progressed to back pain with rising serum lactate. The initial and repeat computerized tomography (CT) scans were unremarkable apart from small bilateral renal stones. She was ultimately treated conservatively in the hospital and discharged. On a follow-up appointment and CT scan, it was discovered that she had small bilateral adrenal haemorrhages. She was followed in the clinic until symptomatic resolution which did eventuate, and she was subsequently discharged. The case highlights that with no antecedent factors or past medical history combined with no hemodynamic instability, bilateral adrenal haemorrhages would be a diagnosis to reach but should remain in the differential.  Cureus 2022-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9440983/ /pubmed/36081640 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28758 Text en Copyright © 2022, Renwick et al. https://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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title_fullStr Idiopathic Bilateral Adrenal Haemorrhage in an Otherwise Healthy Patient
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title_short Idiopathic Bilateral Adrenal Haemorrhage in an Otherwise Healthy Patient
title_sort idiopathic bilateral adrenal haemorrhage in an otherwise healthy patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9440983/
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