Intramural hematoma of the ascending colon leading to intraperitoneal hemorrhage: a possible post-polypectomy complication.
A 61-year-old male on anticoagulant therapy underwent an endoscopic multiple colon polypectomy in our Department according to established procedures. Several days later he developed an intramural colonic hematoma, which burst into the peritoneal cavity leading to fatal intra-peritoneal hemorrhage. Herein we present the case and discuss the causative role of the anticoagulant therapy but also of the endoscopic procedureper se.
Departments of Gastroeterology (Evangelos Voudoukis, Konstantinos Karmiris, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Georgios Tribonias, Gregorios A. Paspatis).
Evangelos
E
Voudoukis
Abdominal Surgery (Konstantinos G. Spiridakis, Nikolaos Kontopodis, Odysseas Miliadis).
Konstantinos G
KG
Spiridakis
Departments of Gastroeterology (Evangelos Voudoukis, Konstantinos Karmiris, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Georgios Tribonias, Gregorios A. Paspatis).
Konstantinos
K
Karmiris
Pathology (Georgios Georgiou).
Georgios
G
Georgiou
Abdominal Surgery (Konstantinos G. Spiridakis, Nikolaos Kontopodis, Odysseas Miliadis).
Nikolaos
N
Kontopodis
Departments of Gastroeterology (Evangelos Voudoukis, Konstantinos Karmiris, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Georgios Tribonias, Gregorios A. Paspatis).
Konstantinos
K
Konstantinidis
Abdominal Imaging (Konstantinos Psilakis), Venizeleion General Hospital, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Konstantinos
K
Psilakis
Abdominal Surgery (Konstantinos G. Spiridakis, Nikolaos Kontopodis, Odysseas Miliadis).
Odysseas
O
Miliadis
Departments of Gastroeterology (Evangelos Voudoukis, Konstantinos Karmiris, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Georgios Tribonias, Gregorios A. Paspatis).
Georgios
G
Tribonias
Departments of Gastroeterology (Evangelos Voudoukis, Konstantinos Karmiris, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Georgios Tribonias, Gregorios A. Paspatis).
Gregorios A
GA
Paspatis
colonoscopy; intra-peritoneal hemorrhage; intramural colonic hematoma