7 results for “sigmoid colon obstruction”
48y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest in a patient with sigmoid colon vo…
…presented to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on 13 June 2004 with abdominal pain and signs of acute bowel obstruction. Initial assessment identified sigmoid volvulus on imaging. He deteriorated with oxygen desaturation an…
58y · Male·ischaemic bowel; chronic megacolon in the setting of constipation, hypothyroidis…
…onstipation, hypothyroidism and intellectual disability died from ischaemic bowel secondary to chronic megacolon. He presented to hospital with abdominal distension and underwent CT imaging and sigmoidoscopy showing dil…
47y · Female·Large intestinal infarction due to volvulus
… secondary to volvulus (twisting of bowel). She was admitted with presumed faecal loading causing bowel obstruction but developed sigmoid volvulus with haemorrhagic infarction. She had known megacolon requiring careful …
62y · Female·Complications arising from elective laparoscopic Hartmann's procedure for recurr…
…troparesis, died from complications following an elective laparoscopic Hartmann's procedure for recurrent sigmoid volvulus and ileus. Post-operatively uncomplicated initially, she deteriorated on day 3 with signs of sep…
90y · Female·abdominal sepsis complicating perforated diverticular abscess of the sigmoid col…
…ia, died from abdominal sepsis complicating a perforated diverticular abscess. She presented with bowel obstruction requiring laparotomy on 21 October 2019, was discharged on 30 October appearing recovered, then re-pres…
47y · Male·acute renal failure caused by bilateral ureteral obstruction due to metastatic c…
Sean Waygood, an Extreme High Security prisoner, died from acute renal failure caused by metastatic colorectal cancer. He presented with abdominal pain, constipation, and blood per rectum in March 2011 but received subop…
79y · Male·complications of peritonitis
… surgical error by exteriorising the wrong end of bowel as a stoma, causing iatrogenic mechanical bowel obstruction. The error went undetected for 8 days despite clinical signs (absent stomal output, high nasogastric ou…
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