Le Journal médical libanais. The Lebanese medical journal
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Abdominal apoplexy, the spontaneous hemorrhage into the peritoneal cavity, is usually caused by a rupture of visceral vessels such as short gastric arteries. Several factors such as pregnancy, hypertension and atherosclerosis have been described in association with abdominal apoplexy. ⋯ The patient was treated with blood transfusion, fluids resuscitation, laparotomy, and suture ligation of the bleeder vessel. We also review the medical literature of abdominal apoplexy, a rare etiology of acute abdomen that should be recognized early in the Emergency Department.