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Query: UMLS:C0019270 (
hernia
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A 15-month-old boy presented in shock with a supraventricular tachycardia following a 12-h history of worsening abdominal pain and vomiting. The supraventricular tachycardia reverted to sinus tachycardia with fluid resuscitation and adenosine. He was noted to have a distended and firm abdomen. A presumptive diagnosis of intestinal ischaemia was subsequently confirmed at laparotomy when an internal
hernia
with a distal small bowel volvulus and necrosis was found.
Intestinal ischaemia
presenting with a life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmia in a child appears not to have been reported previously.
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PMID:Supraventricular tachycardia as a presenting feature of volvulus in a 15-month-old boy. 2253 Jul 63
