Re: Ascites, abdominal wall closure and cirrhosis

From: Joe Cutchin (forcep@intercom.net)
Wed Sep 8 13:36:41 2004


As Ashley stated,you must rule out urinary injury ,not just believe it is unlikely. I saw a ureteral separation in a supracervical hyst.

Ricardo Savaris wrote: >
> Yes,
>
> Gastro is with us on the case. I believe that the ureteral injury is
> very unlikely, patient has no pain, and is urinating fine, besides, it
> was a subtotal hysterectomy.
> Peritonitis is also my concern, but we put a colostomy bag on the wound.
>
> I will keep informed
>
> So far, thank you very much
>
> Ricardo
> At Tue, 7 Sep 2004, D. Ashley Hill wrote:
> >
> >At Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Ricardo Savaris wrote:
> >>
> >>Hello folks.
> >>
> >>Need some help with a case. We performed a SAH in a patient with HCV
> >>and cirrhosis. She was doing fine on the post-op, but on PO day 3 she
> >>started to drain ascitis from the surgical wound. She was draining
> >>1000ml/day.
> >
> >Ricardo- You might want to run a creatinine on the ascites, to make sure
> >you don't have a ureteral or bladder injury. Or, obtain an intravenous
> >pyelogram. In addition, I would evaluate any fever carefully, as
> >patients with large-volume ascites are at risk for bacterial
> >peritonitis. Is there a gastroenterologist available? Good luck.
> >
> >Ashley
> >
> >--
> >D. Ashley Hill, MD
> >Associate Director
> >Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
> >Florida Hospital Family Practice Residency
> >Orlando, Florida
> >
>
> --
> Ricardo Savaris, MD
> Porto Alegre - Brasil





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