COMPRESSED-AIR INJURY OF THE COLON COMPLICATED BY RHABDOMYOLYSIS - CASE-REPORT

Authors
KINJYO T OHNO T TANAKA K NISHIMURA A TAIRA A
Citation
T. Kinjyo et al., COMPRESSED-AIR INJURY OF THE COLON COMPLICATED BY RHABDOMYOLYSIS - CASE-REPORT, The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care, 36(4), 1994, pp. 592-593
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care → ACNP
Volume
36
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
592 - 593
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
We present a case of traumatic injury of the colon by compressed air. Elevated levels of urinary myoglobin, creatinine phosphokinase, lactat e dehydrogenase, and glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase indicating rhab domyolysis were noted. In this type of injury, rhabdomyolysis related to acute peripheral circulatory failure may occur because of obstructi on of venous return to the heart following a great increase in intrape ritoneal pressure.