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Non-operative management has become a norm in patients with liver trauma and operative management is guided by hemodynamic status. Introduction of haemodynamic status. Introduction of contrast enhanced computed tomography (CECT) abdomen has made NOM possible by helping in exclusion of other injuries and identification of vascular injuries. Haemodynamic instability is now considered as an only absolute indication for operative intervention in liver injuries. However, liver trauma is associated with a large number of complications in the form of perihepatic abscess, hepatic necrosis, bile leak, etc. Patient’s undergoing operative intervention for liver trauma are more at risk for these complications. As such regular dynamic assessment is required for early identification and management of these complications. We present a case of a complex liver injury in a 27-year-old male who underwent operative intervention for liver trauma and had a varied number of liver trauma associated complications, with enterohepatic fistula as one of the rarest associated complications.
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Abbreviations
- NOM:
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Non-operative management
- CECT:
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Contrast enhance computed tomography
- ICU:
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Intensive care unit
- FAST:
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Focussed assessment with sonography in trauma
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Agarwal, H., Kumar, A., Gupta, A. et al. Complex Liver Injury—a Quagmire to a Trauma Surgeon. Indian J Surg 81, 599–601 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-019-01916-1
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