Iatrogenic Severe Splenic Injury after Colonoscopy

Ikponmwosa Enofe; Jacob Burch; Julie Yam; Manoj Rai

doi:10.1155/2020/8824720

Iatrogenic Severe Splenic Injury after Colonoscopy

Case Rep Gastrointest Med. 2020 Oct 6:2020:8824720. doi: 10.1155/2020/8824720. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Ikponmwosa Enofe¹, Jacob Burch¹, Julie Yam², Manoj Rai¹

Affiliations

¹ Internal Medicine Resident, Michigan State University, Sparrow Hospital, East Lansing, MI, USA.
² Gastroenterology Fellow, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.

Abstract

Colonoscopy is a low-risk procedure performed for screening and diagnostic purposes. About 15 million colonoscopies were carried out in the United States in 2012 with this number projected to increase. Injury to the spleen as a complication of colonoscopy is still a rather rare occurrence. We report a case of significant splenic injury, American Association of Surgery for Trauma (AAST) grade III with hemoperitoneum, in a patient following diagnostic colonoscopy, managed conservatively without the need for invasive or salvage surgical procedure.

Publication types

Case Reports