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ArticleCase reports in infectious diseases2023

Atraumatic Splenic Rupture in

Elliott Worku, Dominic Adam Worku

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Article in Case reports in infectious diseases, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Elliott WorkuAdult Intensive Care Services, The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1824-9870
Dominic Adam WorkuInfectious Diseases Department, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7159-7033
Morriston Hospital · GBPrince Charles Hospital · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A previously fit 46-year-old male handyman presented to a rural hospital with a cough, fever, and epigastric pain without peritonism. The patient was admitted medically with symptoms and radiological appearances consistent with atypical community-acquired pneumonia. During the first 48 hours of admission, he suffered a significant haemodynamic deterioration and was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) for vasoactive support. Following stabilisation, urgent abdominal CT imaging demonstrated splenic rupture with haematoma in the absence of historical trauma. Emergency splenectomy was performed; the histopathological examination was unremarkable. Investigations for the presenting complaint confirmed

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PMID37323130
PMCPMC10266911
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