Life-threatening gastrointestinal haemorrhage from a large Meckel's diverticulum
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Simon Dwerryhouse; Peter G Vaughan-Shaw
- Source
- BMJ case reports. 2013
- Subject
- Male
Resuscitation
Meckel's diverticulum
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
business.industry
General surgery
Rectum
General Medicine
Emergency department
medicine.disease
Article
Meckel Diverticulum
medicine.anatomical_structure
Blood pressure
Anesthesia
Heart rate
medicine
Humans
Medical history
medicine.symptom
business
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
Collapse (medical)
- Language
- ISSN
- 1757-790X
A 16-year-old patient was admitted to the emergency department one morning following a collapse with a short history of haematochezia (bleeding per rectum). There was no history of trauma or change in bowel habit and no relevant medical history or drug history. On admission, haemoglobin was 95 g/l. The patient was tachycardic (heart rate 140 beats/min), and hypotensive (blood pressure 85/60 mm Hg) but responded well to initial resuscitation with intravenous crystalloid and …