Spontaneous splenic rupture in pregnancy

Spontaneous splenic rupture in pregnancy

Splenic rupture during pregnancy is a rare and can frequently be a misdiagnosed pathology. This rupture is associated with a high maternal and fetal mortality rate. A 26 years old Moroccan woman para II gravida II presented at the third stage of pregnancy with acute onset of severe abdominal pain. She developed immediately a hypovolemic shock. After both a physical and sonographical exam, it wa...

Splenic rupture in pregnancy.

It is difficult to understand what relevance biomagnetic methods for the study of heart conduction have to the study of atherosclerosis and this applies to a number of other chapters. Indeed many of them describe methods such as thallium scintigraphy which may be capable of detecting the consequences of atherosclerotic disease but generally do so only when the disease is already extremely advan...

Spontaneous rupture of the splenic artery in early pregnancy.

under discussion. The presence of a pneumomediastinum could have interfered with filling of the right heart, but the successful outcome of conservative treatment indicated that this accumulation of air was a minor problem. The fall in blood pressure was considered to be unrelated to the giving of promazine 8 hours before. McNicholl (1960) pointed out that a lateral chest radiograph shows the am...

Spontaneous Splenic Rupture in Melanoma

Spontaneous rupture of spleen due to malignant melanoma is a rare situation, with only a few case reports in the literature. This study reports a previously healthy, 30-year-old man who came with chief complaint of acute abdominal pain to emergency room. On physical examination, abdominal tenderness and guarding were detected to be coincident with hypotension. Ultrasonography revealed mild sple...

Spontaneous splenic rupture in Wegener's vasculitis.