Laparotomy for a patient with warfarin-induced large bowel obstruction

S Pericleous1, N Maguire, J G Cumming

  • 1Department of General Surgery, Monklands Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. s.pericleous@imperial.ac.uk

Scottish Medical Journal
|August 16, 2012
PubMed

Many commonly prescribed drugs can interact with warfarin and prolong bleeding time beyond therapeutic limits. We report a patient who developed a rectus sheath haematoma following inadvertent over anticoagulation. Despite conservative management, the patient went on to develop large bowel obstruction from the expanding haematoma and operative intervention became necessary.