ABSTRACT
Las complicaciones crónicas de la apendicitis aguda manejada de forma conservadora son infrecuentes. Presentamos un caso de hemorragia digestiva baja aguda en paciente joven con antecendente de apendicitis aguda no intervenida. En la colonoscopia se detectó un sangrado apendicular que se trató quirúrgicamente. El diagnóstico anatomopatológico fue de apendicitis granulomatosa. La evolución clínica del paciente fue favorable sin recidiva hemorrágica. La hemorragia apendicular puede ser una complicación inusual potencialmente grave de la apendicitis aguda no intervenida (AU)
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 complicationhowever potentially severeof acute appendicitis not treated surgically (AU)
Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Adult , Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage/complications , Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage/surgery , Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage , Appendicitis/complications , Appendicitis/surgery , Appendicitis , Colonoscopy/methods , Appendix/pathology , Appendix , Hemodynamics/radiation effects , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods , Tomography, Emission-Computed/methods , Cecum/pathology , Cecum/surgery , CecumABSTRACT
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.
