The elderly haemodialysis patient with abdominal symptoms and hypovolemic shock--splenic rupture secondary to splenic infarction in a patient with severe atherosclerosis.
D015746:Abdominal Pain; D000368:Aged; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000150:complications*; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D012769:Shock; D013154:Spleen / Q000473:pathology*; D013159:Splenic Infarction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology