title: [Autopsy case of abdominal compartment syndrome in a patient with schizophrenia].
abstract: A 61-year-old man who had taken several kinds of psychotropic agents for schizophrenia from eighteen was admitted due to acute abdomen. In spite of any treatment he died after arrival. The autopsy revealed marked dilation of gastrointestinal tracts without necrosis through stomach to rectum and pathological examination disclosed hypoganglionosis of whole gastrointestinal wall. We thought that he died of abdominal compartment syndrome as a result of acute on chronic secondary pseudo-obstruction of gastrointestinal tracts due to acquired hypoganglionosis, megacolon, and aerophagia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yokoyama
authors.forename: Naohiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dairaku
authors.forename: Shinichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ikeya
authors.forename: Mutsumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Niiya
authors.forename: Shigeyuki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Asano
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen; D000208:Acute Disease; D000334:Aerophagy / Q000150:complications; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003161:Compartment Syndromes / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D007418:Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008531:Megacolon / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications*