Severe complications following diagnostic colonoscopy: a report of two cases

Piotr Misiak; Sławomir Jabłoński; Szymon Wcisło; Maciej Niemirowicz

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Pielęgniarstwo Chirurgiczne i Angiologiczne/Surgical and Vascular Nursing

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Case report

Severe complications following diagnostic colonoscopy: a report of two cases

Piotr Misiak

,

Sławomir Jabłoński

,

Szymon Wcisło

,

Maciej Niemirowicz

Pielęgniarstwo Chirurgiczne i Angiologiczne 2014; 2: 82–84

Online publish date: 2014/05/20

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Colonic perforation after diagnostic colonoscopy is an unusual complication. We would like to present two clinical cases of these unfavorable outcomes: first with bilateral pneumothorax, pneumoperitoneum and pneumoretroperitoneum and second with a cardiac arrest due to tension pneumothorax with pneumomediastinum and pneumoperitoneum. To our knowledge, there are less than five such cases described so far.

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Severe complications following diagnostic colonoscopy: a report of two cases

Piotr Misiak , Sławomir Jabłoński , Szymon Wcisło , Maciej Niemirowicz

pneumothorax, diagnostic colonoscopy

Piotr Misiak

,

Sławomir Jabłoński

,

Szymon Wcisło

,

Maciej Niemirowicz