Omental Infarction: A Case Treated with Laparoscopic Surgery

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Arafat Yasser Bertrand Ng

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Bertrand Ng
General Surgical Department, Hervey Bay Hospital, Associate Lecturer University of Queensland, Australia

A B S T R A C T

Omental infarct is a rare cause of an acute abdomen that arises from an interruption of blood supply to the omentum. Here, we present a case of omental infarct in a 67-year-old gentleman with background history of diabetes mellitus who present unusually with a severe acute onset right hypochondrium pain. Examination revealed that he was tender to touch at the right and was having localized guarding. His inflammatory markers were normal. He was successfully treated with laparoscopy surgery and he was subsequently discharged the following day. Omental infarct cases with right hypochondrium pain can sometimes mimicked acute cholecystitis and management includes laparoscopic surgery which can hasten symptoms resolution and reduces hospital stay, however recommendation for surgery has to be balanced with anesthetics risk and complication of the surgery itself.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Wed 07, Aug 2019
Accepted: Thu 29, Aug 2019
Published: Thu 12, Sep 2019

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© 2023 Bertrand Ng. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.IJSCR.2019.02.03