Emergency surgical management for complicated schistosomal massive splenomegaly with portomesenteric thrombosis and bowel ischemia: a case report
Rasheed Altwiher, Ahmad Alzaid, Amir Othman, Yasser Alhabeeb, Mahabbah Fawaz Almarshdi, Yasmin Al-Shammari · 2026
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Rasheed Altwiher and five co-authors report a grave surgical emergency in this 2026 case report. A forty-three-year-old man had long-standing scarring of the liver's portal area from schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease, which had swollen his spleen and raised pressure in the veins of his gut. A clot then formed in those veins, starving part of his small bowel of blood.
At emergency surgery, the team freed the trapped bowel by cutting dense adhesions, and the bowel segment survived in full. In the same course they removed the spleen and cut the veins feeding dangerous swollen vessels, easing the pressure at its root. The belly was left partly open for two days, then checked again and closed. A leak from the pancreas healed without more surgery, and the patient recovered fully.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rasheed Altwiher, Ahmad Alzaid, Amir Othman, Yasser Alhabeeb, Mahabbah Fawaz Almarshdi, Yasmin Al-Shammari |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |