[Pneumoperitoneum after cardiac surgery. A complete anamnesis is the clue]. / Neumoperitoneo tras cirugía. Una completa anamnesis es la clave.
Arch Cardiol Mex
; 85(3): 238-42, 2015.
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Herein we present the case of an 82 year-old patient undergoing cardiac surgery for mitral valve replacement. Fifteen years earlier, the patient had undergone surgery to replace his aortic valve, so that it was now a cardiac reoperation. Through sternotomy, and release of pericardial adherences, there was an accidental opening of a small portion of the peritoneum, proceeding to repair with simple suture. Postoperatively, the presence of pneumoperitoneum alarmed about the possibility of an intra-abdominal complication but it was subsequently discarded with recent surgical process. Through this article we review what the pneumoperitoneum consist, its causes and management, as well as highlighting possible etiologies sometimes not considered as a recent cardiac surgery, simply because the patient in found in different contexts and we do not think about those possibilities.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Pneumoperitônio
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Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Cardíacos
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Aged80
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Arch Cardiol Mex
Assunto da revista:
CARDIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2015
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
México