A therapeutic barium enema is a practical option to control bleeding from the appendix

BMC Gastroenterology

Yutaka Kohgo³  Kentaro Moriichi³  Yuhei Inaba³  Nobuhiro Ueno³  Kensuke Oikawa¹  Jun Sakamoto⁴  Mitutaka Inoue²  Momotaro Muto²  Akihiro Hayashi²  Mizue Shimoda²  Aki Sakatani²  Kazuyuki Tanaka²  Mikihiro Fujiya³  Youkou Konno² 

[1]Department of pathology, Asahikawa-Kosei general Hospital, Asahikawa, Hokkaidō 078-8211, Japan

[2]Department of Internal Medicine, Engaru-Kosei general Hospital, Engaru, Hokkaido 099-0404, Japan

[3]Division of Gastroenterology and Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Asahikawa Medical University, 2-1 Midorigaoka-higashi, Asahikawa, Hokkaido 078-8510, Japan

[4]Department of Gastroenterology, Sapporo Higashi Tokushukai Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido 065-0033, Japan

关键词: Appendicitis;    Intestinal hemorrhage;    Barium enema;    Appendix bleeding;   

Others  :  857530
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-230X-13-152

 received in 2012-06-18, accepted in 2013-10-17,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Acute lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage originating from the appendix is rare and often intractable, because it is almost impossible to approach the bleeding point by endoscopy. We herein describe the first case of bleeding from the appendix, which was successively controlled by a therapeutic barium enema administered into the appendix.

Case presentation

A 71-year-old male visited our hospital because of melena. He has been receiving an anti-coagulation drug, ticlopidine hydrochloride, for 10 years. By an emergency colonoscopy, a hemorrhage was detected in the appendix, and the lesion responsible for the bleeding was regarded to exist in the appendix. Two hundred milliliters of 50 W/V% barium was sprayed into the orifice of the appendix using a spraying tube. The bleeding could thus be immediately stopped, and a radiological examination revealed the accumulation of barium at the cecum and the orifice of the appendix. The barium accumulation disappeared by the next day, and no obvious anal bleeding was observed. Two weeks after stopping the bleeding from the appendix, an appendectomy was performed to prevent any further refractory hemorrhaging. The patient has had no complaints of any abdominal symptoms or anal bleeding for 10 months.

Conclusions

A therapeutic barium enema is a useful procedure to control bleeding from the appendix and to avoid emergency surgery, such as partial cecectomy and hemicolectomy.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Konno et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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