Late post-operative splenic bleeding after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: case report

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Midhat Abu Sneineh and Hasan Kais

The risk of postoperative bleeding after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has been reported to be between 1% and 6%. Most of them occur in the early post-operative period. The bleeding may be intra or extra luminal. Late post-operative splenic bleeding is rare and not described in the literature. Here we present a case report with massive late post-operative splenic bleeding 10 days post routine LSG.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2019.19445.3752
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