24 results for “oesophagitis”
66y · Female·Acute oesophagitis complicated by gastrointestinal haemorrhage
A 66-year-old woman with cerebral palsy, dysphagia, and chronic reflux oesophagitis presented with acute gastrointestinal bleeding while in supported disability accommodation. She was tre…
32y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia and reflux oesophagitis
Timothy Luke Rubenach, aged 32, died of aspiration pneumonia following severe reflux oesophagitis. He had profound intellectual disability and drug-resistant epilepsy from meningococcal infection at 5 …
38y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia in the setting of cerebral palsy
Argyrios Carras, a 38-year-old man with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, scoliosis and oesophagitis, died from aspiration pneumonia. He was dependent on PEG feeding and had a history of recurrent respira…
39y · Male·Ischaemic heart disease with complete occlusion of the left anterior descending …
… V. with chest pain on exertion (cycling, chopping wood) and arm heaviness. The doctor diagnosed reflux oesophagitis, ordered ECG and troponin testing (both normal at 3.5 hours post-symptom onset), and prescribed Losec. …
73y · Male·Complications of pyelonephritis and hepatocellular carcinoma in a man with epile…
Ian Robert Cameron, a 73-year-old man with multiple disabilities including motor neuron disease, epilepsy, and intellectual disability, died at home in specialist disability accommodation from complications of pyelonephr…
58y · Male·Gastrointestinal haemorrhage due to erosive gastritis
Bert Sharpe, aged 58, died from gastrointestinal haemorrhage due to erosive gastritis at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on 19 April 2004. He had been an involuntary psychiatric patient at Graylands Hospital since 1992, fo…
67y · Male·acute gastrointestinal haemorrhage complicating peptic ulcer of the duodenum wit…
… pump inhibitor (Esomeprazole) charting failed from 6 August onwards despite the patient's known reflux oesophagitis and pre-admission use of Rabeprazole; multiple practitioners failed to recognize this omission; (3) Pos…
45y · Male·choking on food
Richard Mann, a 45-year-old man with intellectual disability and psychiatric illness residing in an institutional setting (Strathmont Centre infirmary), died from choking on food. Critical failures in observation and mon…
59y · Female·Pneumonia
Tamara Kudeviita, a 59-year-old woman with Down's syndrome and advanced Alzheimer's disease, died of pneumonia in a palliative care unit. She had been declining throughout 2022, with loss of swallowing ability, mobility,…
80y · Male·aspiration pneumonia
Ernest Charles Willetts, 80, died from aspiration pneumonia following an appendectomy. On hospital day 3, he developed coffee-ground vomitus indicating gastrointestinal bleeding. A gastroscopy was performed that afternoo…
72y · Female·Bronchopneumonia
Diane Young, a 72-year-old psychiatric resident with multiple comorbidities including asthma, aortic stenosis, and intellectual disability, died of bronchopneumonia with contributing ischaemic heart disease. She was seen…
71y · Male·Sudden death in a man with chronic aspiration pneumonia, COVID-19 infection, sch…
Gary Kennedy, a 71-year-old man with Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and seizure disorder living in a disability care facility, died from sudden death associated with chronic aspiration pneumonia and concurrent COVID…
64y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia with cerebral palsy as a contributing factor
A 64-year-old man with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, dysphagia, and recurrent respiratory infections died of aspiration pneumonia. He was receiving disability support services through Melba Support Services. I…
57y · Male·hanging
Christopher Maxwell Lampkin, a 57-year-old man with longstanding depression and alcohol dependence, died by hanging in July 2021. He had been treated for depression since 2009 and had attended an alcohol and drugs servic…
51y · Male·complications of myocardial infarction in association with ischaemic heart disea…
A 51-year-old Aboriginal male prisoner with multiple cardiovascular risk factors (diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, chronic kidney disease, obesity, smoking) died on 5 February 2024 from myocardial infarction. He…
44y · Male·aspiration pneumonia
Christopher Hollens, a 44-year-old man with chronic schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, spastic paraparesis, and epilepsy, died of aspiration pneumonia after a 15-day admission to Royal Adelaide Hospital. He was trans…
89y · Male·Complications of choking on a food bolus in a man with multiple medical comorbid…
Maurice Benedict Costello, 89, died from aspiration of a food bolus while eating on a geriatric ward three days after a fall. He had documented oropharyngeal dysphagia requiring supervision during oral intake. Speech pat…
44y · Male·cardiogenic shock, on a background of severe tricuspid valve regurgitation, seve…
Jeffrey Blundell, a 44-year-old man with severe intravenous drug use history, died from cardiogenic shock secondary to severe tricuspid valve regurgitation caused by infective endocarditis from non-sterile injection prac…
53y · Male·Multiple injuries from being run over by a waste removal truck
Michael Joseph Bottomley, a 53-year-old man with chronic alcohol dependency, depression, diabetes, and hepatitis C, was fatally struck by a waste removal truck in a Perth laneway at 11:55 pm on 3 May 2012. Earlier that e…
68y · Male·Cerebrovascular disease
John Raymond Ainsworth, a 68-year-old prisoner, died of cerebrovascular disease following a severe stroke on 25 November 2020. He had poorly controlled Type II diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. Prior to his a…
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