Huncharek M, Klassen H, Klassen M
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts.
Angiology. 1994 Aug;45(8):733-5. doi: 10.1177/000331979404500809.
An eighty-three-year-old nulliparous woman hospitalized for orthopedic surgery developed postoperative upper gastrointestinal bleeding and hypotension resulting in her death. Postmortem examination revealed a ruptured splenic artery aneurysm. This is the second reported case of gastrointestinal bleeding due to ruptured splenic artery aneurysm in a nulliparous woman and the first such case resulting in death. The incidence, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and diagnosis of splenic artery aneurysm are discussed.
