Spontaneous healing of chylous ascites after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
Vasa
; 32(4): 215-7, 2003 Nov.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-14694771
ABSTRACT
Postoperative chylous ascites is a rare complication of aortic surgery. This report presents a patient with chylous ascites after abdominal aneurysmectomy. After a retrospective analysis of full blood count measurements, we observed an association between the number of lymphocytes in the patient's total blood count and the development and evaluation of chylous ascites. We believe that this hypothesis might be helpful, as it suggests that the number of lymphocytes in a patient's total blood count may be used as a prognostic factor for the development of chylous ascites. Furthermore, our patient appears to be of interest from a therapeutical point of view, since repeated therapeutic paracenteses alone were sufficient in treating chylous ascites, a finding in contradiction to international literature.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Postoperative Complications
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Chylous Ascites
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Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal
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Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation
Type of study:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
Vasa
Year:
2003
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Greece