2014, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp 202 – 204

Massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding – complication of pancreatic pseudocyst

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Correspondence to:Mavrodin Carmen Iuliana, MD, PhD 3rd Department, Emergency General Surgery, Emergency University Hospital Bucharest, 169 Splaiul Independentei Street, Bucharest, Romania, E-mail: [email protected]

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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.

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PMC ID: 4197508
PubMed ID: 25408725
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Article Publishing Date (print): 2014-6-15
Available Online: 2014-6-25

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ISSN Printing: 1844-122X
ISSN Online: 1844-3117
Journal Title: Journal of Medicine and Life

Copyright License: Open Access

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