Delayed presentation of traumatic diaphragmatic rupture with tension colothorax and strangulation of the transverse colon
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Mousa, Wassim
Lapa, Christo
Grossart, Cathleen
Haq, Asif
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2020
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A 26-year-old man presented to emergency department with respiratory distress. The initial diagnosis after chest X-ray was massive haemothorax, after insertion of a chest drain and further investigations, it turned up to be a rare case of a delay presentation of traumatic diaphragmatic rupture (DR) (after 1 year of the initial trauma). After excessive resuscitation of the patient in the emergency department, the patient underwent an emergency laparotomy which revealed ischaemic transverse colon herniated into the chest through a 7 cm diaphragmatic defect. Resection of the ischaemic bowel had been done, and the patient admitted to Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) postoperatively. The patient had an uneventful recovery and discharged home on postoperative day 9. As DR after thoracoabdominal trauma is a rare condition that can be missed at initial presentation, we would like to highlight the main challenges in diagnosing and managing similar cases after reviewing related cases in the literature.
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BMJ Case Reports
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13
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5