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Detection of hepatic portal venous gas on emergent CT
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- Portal venous gas
- intestinal ischaemia
- abdomen- non trauma, gastro-intestinal
- clinical assessment
- emergency care systems, emergency departments
A 73-year-old man presented to our emergency department with acute diffuse abdominal pain on haemodialysis. His previous medical history included bilateral nephrectomy and radical cystectomy for bilateral renoureteral transitional cell carcinoma, dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure. The abdominal CT scan …
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Competing interests None.
Patient consent Obtained.
Ethics approval This study was conducted with the approval of the IRB of Tungs' Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.