Aorto-intestinal fistulas following operations on the abdominal aorta and iliac arteries

✍ Scribed by A. G. R. Sheil; T. S. Reeve; J. M. Little; G. A. E. Coupland; John Loewenthal

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 474 KB
• Volume: 56
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800561112

✦ Synopsis

Wound sepsis Wound dehiscence Anastornotic leak Postoperative dis-Shock Chest complications Miscellaneous tension Dean and Murry in 1952 performed successful primary resection and anastomosis in 11 cases of acute sigmoid volvulus with I death.

Drapanas and Stewart (1961)~ in their series of I 10 cases, found that non-operative decompression with a sigmoidoscope and a rectal tube was successful in 84 per cent with a mortality rate of 1.2 per cent.