Murariu Daniel, Takekawa Sarah, Furumoto Nancy
Department of Surgery, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, USA.
Hawaii Med J. 2010 Jun;69(6):140-1.
Colonoscopies are usually regarded as safe procedures with low complication rates and are recommended for anyone over the age of fifty for colon cancer screening. Splenic rupture is a rare complication of colonoscopy with few reported cases in the English literature. We present the only reported case of such a complication in the state of Hawai'i and the 44th reported case in the English literature. Physicians need to be more aware of the possibility of splenic rupture following colonoscopy to avoid delay of diagnosis and treatment of this life-threatening complication.
结肠镜检查通常被视为安全的操作，并发症发生率较低，建议五十岁以上的人群进行结肠癌筛查。脾破裂是结肠镜检查的一种罕见并发症，英文文献中报道的病例很少。我们报告了夏威夷州唯一一例此类并发症的病例，也是英文文献中报道的第44例。医生需要更加意识到结肠镜检查后发生脾破裂的可能性，以避免延误对这种危及生命的并发症的诊断和治疗。
