ERCP, gallbladder surgery & death

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SUBJECT: ERCP

Forum: The Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Forum

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Topic: Gastroenterology - General

http://www.medhelp.org/perl6/Gastro/messages/34072.html

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Question Posted By: debbrown on Tuesday, June 25, 2002

I have so many questions and don't know where to start.

Last month, my mother went into the hospital for an ERCP which was to look

for gallstones and then 2 days later to do the gallstone operation.

The ERCP was performed at 5:00pm on May/20, by 8:15, she was violently

vomiting bilious green fluid with pain and distended abdomen. By Tuesday

am, she was in severe pain and further distension of abdomen. On Wednesday,

they performed scheduled gallstone operation to find ischemiac bowel and

pancreatitis. Condition further detoriated and laparotomy was again done

during which subtotal colectomy was done in addl to removel of the terminal

ileum. Further detoriation until 3 days after inital ERCP, death occurred.

Damage done:

- Lungs - severe congestion and oedema

- Liver - coated by acute inflammatory exudate

- Thryoid - severe lymphocytic infiltration

- Spleen - severe congestion

- Pancreas - extensive haemorrhagic infraction both the surface and

substance of the organ. A number of thrombooccluded vessels

- Omentum - patchy areas of haemorrhagic necrosis

- Gallbladder - sections show extensive necrosis of the mucosal folds.

Severe Haemorrhagic infraction and necrosis extending to the surface.

- Stomach / Intestines / Urinary bladder - show haemorrhagic infarction

with moderate congesion

Could acute pancreatitis do this much damage in 2 days; if not, what could?

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With the pancreatitis and acute necrosis in the gallbladder, it sounds to me

as if she waited too long to take some sort of action. Flushing much

earlier may have prevented this, but it sounds as if it was way beyond that

at this point. Evidently, it was too late for even surgery to help. How

sad that something fixable (one way or another) was left unattended for so

long.

Debra

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Who is this in reply to? I didn't see the original message.

L. Meydrech, CN

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> With the pancreatitis and acute necrosis in the gallbladder, it sounds to

me

> as if she waited too long to take some sort of action. Flushing much

> earlier may have prevented this, but it sounds as if it was way beyond

that

> at this point. Evidently, it was too late for even surgery to help. How

> sad that something fixable (one way or another) was left unattended for so

> long.

>

> Debra