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Iatrogenic Splenic Laceration Presenting as Syncope
Dhanalakshmi Thiyagarajan1, Rebecca Jeanmonod1
1Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
Case Reports in Emergency Medicine
|July 6, 2018
Abstract:
Millions of colonoscopies are performed annually for routine health maintenance in the United States. Patients commonly have adverse events from colonoscopy preparation, anesthesia, and procedural complications. We report a case of syncope secondary to iatrogenic splenic laceration from colonoscopy.

