• Hangyan Wang and Dianrong Xiu.
• Department of General Surgery, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, P.R. China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2017 Oct 1; 96 (43): e8264.

RationaleAbdominal apoplexy is a rare and fatal emergency event, which is coined as a comparison to the cerebrovascular apoplexy. The exact mechanism of abdominal apoplexy was unclear, but arteriosclerosis, hypertension, abdominal aneurysm, and other predisposing angiopathy were considered to be the main reasons of abdominal apoplexy. The development of the imaging technology gave us more opportunities to confirm the diagnosis of abdominal apoplexy. However, the diagnosis and identification of the bleeding sites still continued to be a challenge.Patient ConcernsA 55-year-old man presented to the emergency department with chief complains of sudden severe abdominal pain.DiagnosisThe patient was diagnosed as abdominal apoplexy with 2 synchronous bleeding sites.InterventionsAngiography confirmed diagnosis of abdominal apoplexy and revealed 2 synchronous bleeding sites in gastroduodenal artery (GDA) and inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery (IPDA). Transcatheter embolization was performed immediately.OutcomesThe patient recovered and was discharged very soon. Two months later, the patient totally recovered and the hematoma disappeared in the CT imaging.LessonsThe reported case is rare, given the very low incidence of abdominal apoplexy with 2 synchronous bleeding sites in GDA and IPDA. The awareness of abdominal apoplexy was still the key point in the management of this disease. Quick diagnosis by the imaging and immediate embolization were very important for the treatment.

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