1. Massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding - complication of pancreatic pseudocyst.
- Author
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Mavrodin CI, Pariza G, Iordache V, and Pop CS
- Subjects
- Gastrostomy, Hemorrhage surgery, Hemostasis, Endoscopic, Humans, Middle Aged, Pancreatic Pseudocyst pathology, Treatment Outcome, Ultrasonography, Upper Gastrointestinal Tract surgery, Hemorrhage pathology, Pancreatic Pseudocyst complications, Upper Gastrointestinal Tract diagnostic imaging
- Abstract
Massive bleeding is an unusual complication of pancreatitis. Most patients have chronic pancreatic disorders associated with pancreatic pseudocyst. We present the case of a patient, aged 49 years, known with alcohol-induced chronic pancreatitis, corporeal-caudal pancreatic pseudocyst expanded in the omental bursa, admitted to the emergency room because of hematemesis and melena, the endoscopy revealing, as a source, the erosion through the posterior gastric wall by the pseudocyst. The gastrostomy and haemostasis in situ of the source and the pseudocyst-gastric anastomosis was the solution adopted, with favourable long-term evolution.
- Published
- 2014