Year 2016 / Volume 108 / Number 7
Case Report
Appendicular bleeding: an excepcional cause of lower hemorrhage

437-439

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2015.3828/2015

Marta Magaz Martínez, Javier Martín López, Juan De la Revilla Negro, Irene González Partida, Tania de las Heras, María Rosario Sánchez Yuste, Roberto Ríos Garcés, Clara Salas Antón, Luis Esteban Abreu García,

Abstract
Chronic complications of acute appendicitis managed in a conservative manner are not frequent. We present a case of acute lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage in a young patient with a previous acute appendicitis without surgical intervention. The colonoscopy detected an appendicular bleeding which was surgically treated. The anatomopathological diagnosis was granulomatous appendicitis. The clinical evolution of the patient was favorable without bleeding recurrence. Appendicular hemorrhage can be an unusual complication—however potentially severe—of acute appendicitis not treated surgically.
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Magaz Martínez M, Martín López J, De la Revilla Negro J, González Partida I, de las Heras T, Sánchez Yuste M, et all. Appendicular bleeding: an excepcional cause of lower hemorrhage. 3828/2015


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Publication history

Received: 28/04/2015

Accepted: 06/05/2015

Online First: 29/07/2015

Published: 11/07/2016

Article revision time: 2 days

Article Online First time: 92 days

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