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Splenic rupture in community acquired pneumonia: A case report [PDF]
IntroductionSplenic rupture is a rare but potentially lethal complication of community acquired pneumonia.Presentation of caseWe present an unusual case of haemorrhagic shock following splenic rupture requiring emergency splenectomy in a 49 year old ...
Guy, Stephen, De Clercq, Stefaan
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Spontaneous splenic rupture: a case report and literature review
Spontaneous splenic rupture in children is a rare condition with limited documented cases in the medical literature. It can occur in both enlarged and normal-sized spleens.
Xinxing Liu +4 more
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Despite the fact that the vast majority of splenic ruptures are traumatic, infectious mononucleosis has been incriminated as a major predisposing factor that affects the integrity of the spleen, thus causing atraumatic ruptures and life-threatening ...
Konstantinos Bouliaris +5 more
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Pathologic rupture of the spleen in a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia and leukostasis
Rupture of the spleen can be classified as spontaneous, traumatic, or pathologic. Pathologic rupture has been reported in infectious diseases such as infectious mononucleosis, and hematologic malignancies such as acute and chronic leukemias. Splenomegaly
Gil Cunha De Santis +4 more
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Spontaneous splenic rupture in a patient with factor XIII deficiency: A case report
Spontaneous splenic rupture is a rare, life-threatening event, infrequently associated with congenital factor XIII deficiency, a rare coagulation disorder.
José M. Zepeda Torres, MD +9 more
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A 27-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency department with fever and a petechial rash on suspicion of meningitis. Shortly after arriving she developed cardiac arrest. Blood work up showed severe lactate acidosis, anaemia and thrombocytopenia.
M. K. Glesner +7 more
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Atraumatic splenic rupture is a rare complication of a pancreatic pseudocyst (PP), described in the setting of chronic pancreatitis. There is common understanding, within the literature, that an inflammatory process at the tail of the pancreas may ...
P. Moori +4 more
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Background Rupture of the spleen in the absence of trauma or previously diagnosed disease is largely ignored in the emergency literature and is often not documented as such in journals from other fields.
Aubrey-Bassler F, Sowers Nicholas
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