Postoperative vaso-occlusive disease may be a life-threatening condition in patients affected by sickle cell disease, necessitating sometimes liver transplantation. After laparoscopic cholecystectomy, liver necrosis is usually secondary to intraoperative vascular injury. In this patient, the vaso-occlusive crisis mimicked a vascular injury with segmental postoperative necrosis.

Liver necrosis following cholecystectomy in sickle cell disease / Muttillo, Edoardo Maria; Felli, Emanuele; Pessaux, Patrick. - In: CLINICAL CASE REPORTS. - ISSN 2050-0904. - 8:6(2020), pp. 1-2. [10.1002/ccr3.2820]

Liver necrosis following cholecystectomy in sickle cell disease

Muttillo, Edoardo Maria
;
Felli, Emanuele;
2020

Abstract

Postoperative vaso-occlusive disease may be a life-threatening condition in patients affected by sickle cell disease, necessitating sometimes liver transplantation. After laparoscopic cholecystectomy, liver necrosis is usually secondary to intraoperative vascular injury. In this patient, the vaso-occlusive crisis mimicked a vascular injury with segmental postoperative necrosis.
2020
cholecystectomy; liver failure; liver necrosis; liver surgery; sickle cell disease
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Liver necrosis following cholecystectomy in sickle cell disease / Muttillo, Edoardo Maria; Felli, Emanuele; Pessaux, Patrick. - In: CLINICAL CASE REPORTS. - ISSN 2050-0904. - 8:6(2020), pp. 1-2. [10.1002/ccr3.2820]
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