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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Sigmoid volvulus and unexpected death in the elderly |
Author: | Byard, R. Pannell, M. |
Citation: | Journal of Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine: an international journal of forensic and legal medicine, 2001; 8(4):228-230 |
Publisher: | Churchill Livingstone |
Issue Date: | 2001 |
ISSN: | 1353-1131 |
Abstract: | An 84-year-old female who was found unexpectedly dead at her home was shown at autopsy to have a massively dilated sigmoid colon with twisting of the lower colon on an unusually long mesentery. The volvulus had caused mechanical obstruction of the bowel with critical reduction of the blood supply resulting in intestinal infarction. Death was due to ischaemic necrosis of the lower large intestine with significant fluid and electrolyte sequestration within the bowel lumen, associated with disseminated sepsis. Gastrointestinal disorders that may result in unexpected death are uncommon in adults and may present atypically in the elderly. The diagnosis of unexpected death due to an infarcted sigmoid volvulus may not be established until an autopsy has been undertaken. |
Description: | Case Report |
DOI: | 10.1054/jcfm.2001.0497 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/jcfm.2001.0497 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 6 Pathology publications |
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