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5 results for oesophageal dilation

TAShospital2022-10-26

Coroner's Finding: Carroll, Terence John

71y · Male·sepsis caused by mediastinal empyema (abscess) which complicated perforation of …

Terence Carroll, 71, died from sepsis and mediastinal empyema following oesophageal perforation during rigid oesophagoscopy for stricture dilation. Critical failures included: CT scan sho…

ENT surgerygeneral surgerycommunicationdiagnostic
TAShospital2024-12-09

Coroner's Finding: Brand, Robin William

62y · Male·Mediastinitis due to perforated oesophagus, with severe emphysema as a contribut…

A 62-year-old man with severe emphysema and chronic oesophageal stricture died from mediastinitis secondary to perforated oesophagus. He had undergone 46 oesophageal d…

gastroenterologyemergency medicine
VIChospital2026-06-12

Finding into death of Helen Mahlis

87y · Female·Oesophageal perforation following an elective oesophageal dilatation, secondary …

87-year-old Helen Mahlis died from oesophageal perforation following an elective balloon dilation procedure at Epworth Richmond for treatment of achal…

gastroenterologygeneral surgeryproceduraldiagnostic
VIChospital2023-03-31

Finding into death of Callie Griffiths-I'Anson

2y · Female·perforated oesophagus secondary to complications of treatment of oesophageal inj…

…ansferred to the Royal Children's Hospital (RCH). On 11 January 2018, she underwent an oesophagoscopy and dilation procedure performed to standard, but suffered an iatrogenic perforation of the oesophagus during or immed…

paediatric surgeryanaesthesiacommunicationsystemmidazolam
VIChospital2022-03-31

Finding into death of Ms L

45y · Female·Cerebrovascular accident

Ms L, a 45-year-old woman with Down syndrome and multiple comorbidities including chronic rheumatoid arthritis, suffered a massive right basal ganglia cerebral haemorrhage with intraventricular extension on 28 February 2…

neurologyemergency medicinehydroxychloroquine

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