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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Dec 2009
Case ReportsSplenic tear causing a hemoperitoneum after cardiac surgery.
- Fabrizio Ceresa, Giuseppe Franciò, Pasquale Aldo Intili, and Francesco Patanè.
- Division of Cardiac Surgery, Papardo Hospital, Contrada Sperone 98120, Messina, Italy. ceresa77@hotmail.com
- Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2009 Dec 1;9(6):1049-50.
AbstractHemoperitoneum after cardiac surgery is a very rare but life-threatening complication. We have only found a few cases described in the literature, in which the intra-abdominal hemorrhages were caused by liver bleeding, due to direct hepatic trauma or spontaneous hepatic rupture. We describe the first case of hemoperitoneum caused by a spontaneous rupture of the spleen.
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