4 results for “sigmoid colon infarction”
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
Sharon Lee McDonald, a 47-year-old woman with Down syndrome, died from large intestinal infarction secondary to volvulus (twisting of bowel). She was admitted with presumed faecal loading causing bowel o…
90y · Female·abdominal sepsis complicating perforated diverticular abscess of the sigmoid col…
…h as she remained clinically stable throughout. The autopsy revealed peritonitis with pus from perforated sigmoid diverticular abscess. The coroner concluded her death was not preventable despite appropriate medical car…
80y · Female·sudden cardiac arrest due to multiple post-operative complications including myo…
An 80-year-old woman died from multiple post-operative complications following reversal of a Hartmann's procedure for diverticulitis. She had undergone a complex 8-hour surgery complicated by extensive adhesions (frozen …
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