73y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia complicating sigmoid volvulus in a man with Down syndrome
…us and left lower lobe consolidation. He was admitted to hospital, treated with antibiotics, and underwent rigid sigmoidoscopy. He died 4 days after admission from aspiration pneumonia complicating sigmoid volvulus. The…
58y · Male·aspiration pneumonia complicating sigmoid volvulus, in a man with multiple scler…
…Hospital on 25 January 2023 with abdominal pain and distension. He underwent rectal tube insertion via sigmoidoscopy on 26 January with initial improvement. However, he developed aspiration pneumonia and died on 29 Janu…
67y · Male·Faeculent peritonitis due to perforation of a sigmoid volvulus
Ross Butler, a 67-year-old with dementia and Parkinson's disease, presented with abdominal pain and decreased appetite. A sigmoid volvulus was identified and a rectal tube successfully inserted for decompression. Conserv…
48y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest in a patient with sigmoid colon vo…
Daniel Allan Sullivan, a 48-year-old man with chronic paranoid schizophrenia who had been an involuntary patient at Graylands Hospital for 23 years, presented to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on 13 June 2004 with abdomin…
41y · Male·Cerebral hypoxia and bronchopneumonia; contributing factors: toxic megacolon, ce…
David Orton, a 41-year-old man with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, and severe kyphoscoliosis, died from cerebral hypoxia and bronchopneumonia complicated by toxic megacolon and Salmonella infection. Over 18 mon…
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