TY - JOUR
AR - AJSCR-2020-3-107
TI - Damage Control Laparotomy for Severe Typhoid Fever: A Case Report
AU - Abdirahaman, Nuno
AU - Mokhtar, Eltair
AU - T. A. , Agarwal
JO - American Journal of Surgical Case Reports
PY - 2020
DA - Thu 09, Jul 2020
SN - 2674-5046
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.31487/j.AJSCR.2020.03.07
UR - https://www.sciencerepository.org/damage-control-laparotomy-for-severe-typhoid-fever-a-case-report_AJSCR-2020-3-107 
KW - Abdominal typhoid, fistula, sepsis, laparostomy, damage control laparotomy
AB - Persistent intra-abdominal sepsis is a challenging complication of abdominal typhoid with a high mortality
and difficult to manage. Delayed perforations following initial operative intervention is one of the rarer
complications of this disease, causing wound breakdown and open abdomen, resulting in fistula. We
present the management of a rare case, which presented with multiple perforations and multiple organ
system dysfunction then complicated post-operatively with multiple fistula and open abdomen.