Anticoagulant-induced Intramural Duodenal Haematoma Presenting with Upper-gastrointestinal Haemorrhage
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Warfarin is an anticoagulant agent known to have a common complication, bleeding. Intramural intestinal haematoma is an uncommon incidence of warfarin-induced haemorrhage. Abdominal pain is its most frequent symptom and presentation with upper-gastrointestinal haemorrhage is rarely seen. Here, we present a 67-year-old male who was admitted to the hospital with active upper-gastrointestinal haemorrhage. In this case, the cause of bleeding has been attributed to duodenal intramural haematoma due to warfarin overuse.
Extensive small bowel intramural haematoma secondary to warfarin.
Limmer A, Clement Z J Surg Case Rep. 2017; 2017(3):rjx044.
PMID: 28458850 PMC: 5400458. DOI: 10.1093/jscr/rjx044.