Perforated appendicitis after intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in a term neonate with haemolytic jaundice.
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2015
Yazarlar: Basak Yildiz Atikan, Özge ALTUN, Mehmet YALAZ, Mustafa Orkan ERGÜN, Ülküm Zafer DÖKÜMCÜ, Başak DOĞANAVŞARGİL YAKUT, Mete AKISU, Nilgun Kultursay
Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP, Uluslararası, 2015, cilt 25, ss 296-8
Özet
Neonatal appendicitis is a rare clinical condition that may cause high morbidity and mortality if diagnosis is delayed. There is usually an underlying disease; it can also be a localized form of necrotizing enterocolitis. Here, we present a term neonate who was treated with intravenous immunoglobulin because of severe isoimmune hemolytic jaundice. The patient developed abdominal symptoms within 10 hours of therapy, was diagnosed with acute perforated appendicitis and completely recovered after surgery.