Gene/Protein
Disease
Symptom
Drug
Enzyme
Compound
Pivot Concepts:
Gene/Protein
Disease
Symptom
Drug
Enzyme
Compound
Target Concepts:
Gene/Protein
Disease
Symptom
Drug
Enzyme
Compound
Query: UMLS:C0042961 (
volvulus
)
4,305
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
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.
...
PMID:Supraventricular tachycardia as a presenting feature of volvulus in a 15-month-old boy. 2253 Jul 63
