3 results for “sigmoid colon volvulus”
48y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest in a patient with sigmoid colon vo…
…l 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 and suffered a cardiac arrest on 15 June 20…
47y · Female·Large intestinal infarction due to volvulus
… 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 obstruction but develope…
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…
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