A RARE CASE OF BLOODY DIARRHEA - THROMBOSIS OF THE V-MESENTERICA INFERIOR FOLLOWING LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become the standard treatment for sym ptomatic cholecystolithiasis. The most common complications, as curren t experiences show, are bleeding, bile duct injury and nontechnical co mplications like pneumonia. In some individual cases ischemic lesions of bowel by injury or thrombosis of intestinal vessels are described. Here we report the rare case of intestinal venous thrombosis following laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The complication clinically appeared wi thin 24 h after operation starting with bloody diarrhea and mimicking inflammatory bowel disease. The patient, a 41-year-old man, was treate d with high-dose heparin and could be discharged after 44 days without complaints. Coloscopy six months after the event showed a restitutio ad integrum.