Original Article / Özgün Araştırma DOI: 10.4274/haseki.galenos.2019.5268 Med Bull Haseki 2019;57:392-395 Invasive Management of Abscess Due to Splenic Infarct: A Retrospective Analysis of Thirteen Cases Splenik Enfarkta Bağlı Absenin İnvaziv Tedavisi: On Üç Olgunun Retrospektif Analizi Harun Karabacak, Selim Tamam, Şener Balas, Serhat Tokgöz, Kerim Bora Yılmaz, Melih Akıncı*, Onur Ergün*, Hasan Ali Durmaz*, Metin Aydın, Muzaffer Akkoca, Cem Azılı University of Health Sciences, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of General Surgery, Ankara, Turkey *University of Health Sciences, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Radiology, Ankara, Turkey Abs tract Öz Aim: Splenic infarction is a rare condition successfully treated Amaç: Splenik enfarkt nadir bir dalak patolojisidir ve genel with medical methods in general. The aim of this study was to olarak tıbbi yöntemlerle başarılı bir şekilde tedavi edilmektedir. evaluate the invasive treatment options in patients with splenic Bu çalışmada ise splenik enfarkta bağlı apse gelişen hastalarda infarction-associated abscess. invaziv tedavi seçeneklerinin değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Methods: Files of thirteen patients, who underwent Yöntemler: Splenik enfarktüs sonucu apse nedeniyle perkütan percutaneous drainage or a surgical procedure due to abscess as drenaj veya cerrahi işlem uygulanan 13 hastanın dosyaları a result of splenic infarction, were retrospectively reviewed. Age retrospektif olarak incelendi. Yaşlar, semptomlar, fizik muayene, symptoms, results of physical and radiological examinations and radyolojik muayene ve tedavi yöntemleri analiz edildi. therapeutic methods were analyzed. Bulgular: Hastaların yedisi (%54) kadın, altısı (%46) erkekti ve Results: A total of 13 patients with the mean age of 56±18 yaş ortalamaları 56±18 (28-84) idi. On bir hastada (%85) akut years were included in the study. Seven (54%) patients were karın, dokuz hastada (%70) yüksek lökosit sayısı (WBC) (>15000/ female and six (46%) were male. Acute abdomen was observed mL) görüldü. Beş hastada (%39) perkütan drenaj, sekiz hastada in 11 patients (85%), and acute abdomen as well as high white (%62) ise splenektomi yapıldı; bunların tümü bilgisayarlı tomografi blood cell (WBC) count (>15000/mL) in nine patients (70%). ile splenik apse tanısı aldı. Perkütan drenaj ile splenektomi yapılan Percutaneous drainage was performed in five patients (39%) and hastalarda yaş, cinsiyet, akut karın durumu, WBC, trombosit sayısı splenectomy in eight patients (62%), all of whom were diagnosed ve mortalite arasında fark bulunmazken, splenektomi grubunda with splenic abscess by means of computed tomography. There eşlik eden hastalık sayısı daha fazla idi (p=0,017) ve hastanede was no difference in age, gender, acute abdomen, WBC count, kalış süresi uzundu (p=0,011). platelet count and mortality between patients who underwent Sonuç: Splenik infarkt sonucu apse gelişen, genel durum splenectomy and percutaneous drainage group, whereas in the bozukluğu olan, tıbbi tedaviye rağmen semptomları ve WBC’si splenectomy group, the number of associated diseases was gerilemeyen hastalarda perkütan drenaj ve gerekirse splenektomi higher and the length of hospital stay was longer (p=0.017 and yapılmalıdır. p=0.011, respectively). Anahtar Sözcükler: Splenik enfarkt, karın ağrısı, splenektomi, Conclusion: Percutaneous drainage and, when necessary, splenik apse splenectomy should be performed in patients who develop abscess as a result of splenic infarct, whose general health conditions deteriorates and whose symptoms do not improve and who have high WBC count despite medical treatment. Keywords: Splenic infarct, abdominal pain, splenectomy, splenic abscess Ad­dress­for­Cor­res­pon­den­ce/Ya­z›fl­ma­Ad­re­si: Serhat Tokgöz, University of Health Sciences ©Copyright 2019 by The Medical Bulletin of Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of General Surgery, Ankara, Turkey İstanbul Haseki Training and Research Hospital The Medical Bulletin of Haseki published by Galenos Yayınevi. E-mail: [email protected] ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2716-6222 ©Telif Hakkı 2019 İstanbul Haseki Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi Received/Gelifl­Tarihi: 02 Apr 2019 Ac­cep­ted/Ka­bul­Ta­ri­hi: 05 May 2019 Haseki Tıp Bülteni, Galenos Yayınevi tarafından yayınlanmıştır. 392 Karabacak et al. Invasive Management of Splenic Infarct Introduction numerical and categorical data. A p value of less than 0.05 Splenic infarct is a rare clinical condition and patients was considered statistically significant. usually present to emergency departments with left upper Results abdominal pain. The most common etiology is hematologic diseases followed by thromboembolic conditions and, A total of 13 pateints with the mean age of 56±18 (28- less commonly, vascular diseases, anatomic disorders 84) years were included in the study. Seven (54%) patients and collagen tissue diseases (1,2). It can be observed in were female and six (46%) were male. Eleven patients patients presenting to emergency department with the (85%) had acute abdomen with guarding and rebound complaint of abdominal pain and during follow-up of tenderness findings, whereas physical examination patients with chronic diseases. Infarct occurs when one findings were normal in two (15%) patients. Four patients or more branches of the splenic artery are occluded by (31%) had no associated diseases, three had (24%) an embolus or thrombus. Depending on this involvement, one and six patients (46%) had two or more associated partial or complete infarction in the spleen may occur. diseases. Serum white blood cell (WBC) count was normal Medical treatment is the optimal solution for managing (5000-10000/mL) in three patients (23%), high (10001- cases that are not complicated. In addition, according to 15000/mL) in one patient (8%) and very high (over 15000/ the extent of the involvement, the condition may progress mL) in nine patients (70%). Ultrasonography (USG) was to abscess, necrosis and massive splenic infarct. In such used as the primary radiological diagnostic tool in eight scenarios, procedures such as percutaneous drainage and (62%) patients. USG revealed splenic abcess in five (68%) splenectomy may be required. This study aims to analyze patients, splenic infarct in one (13%), intra-abdominal free patients diagnosed with splenic infarct, who underwent liquid in one (13%), and normal findings in one (13%) radiological or surgical intervention due to unsuccessful patient. All the 13 patients (100%) were diagnosed with medical treatment. splenic abscess by computed tomography (CT); additional findings, such as intra-abdominal free fluid, retroperitoneal Methods additional abscess and inflammation of the adjacent After receiving approval from the local ethics committee, organ, were observed in five patients (39%). Five patients the files of patients, who were diagnosed with splenic (39%) underwent successful percutaneous drainage only infarct in the general surgery clinic at Dışkapı Yıldırm Beyazıt and eight patients with or without previous percutaneous Training and Research Hospital (decision no: 30/14-2016) drainage underwent splenectomy. Splenectomy was between August 2012 and January 2016 and underwent performed in two patients in whom percutaneous a surgical procedure or radiological percutaneous drainage failed. Nine patients (69.2%) required intensive drainage due to the complexity of their condition, were care monitoring; the average length of hospital stay was evaluated retrospectively. Splenic infarct patients, who 21±15 (5-60) days. Four patients required prolonged were followed in the general surgery or internal medicine intensive care unit length of stay due to various diseases. clinics during this period and successfully treated with Three patients (23%) died during treatment. medical treatment, were excluded from this study. Data There was no difference in age, gender, presence of on gender, age, symptoms, physical examination, serum acute abdomen, WBC and platelet count and mortality laboratory analyses, associated diseases, length of hospital between patients, who underwent percutaneous drainage stay, radiological examination, treatment methods and as the treatment option, and splenectomy group whereas mortality in patients, who were diagnosed with splenic in the splenectomy group, the number of associated infarct and underwent radiological percutaneous drainage diseases was higher (p=0.017) and hospital stay was or surgical procedure, were analyzed. Splenectomy and, if longer (p=0.011) (Table 1). There was no difference in age, needed, additional medical procedures were performed in sex, presence of associated disease and acute abdomen, patients who were not suitable for percutaneous drainage platelet count and length of hospital stay between patients or whose condition was not improved enough despite who survived and those who died, however, patients, percutaneous drainage. whose condition resulted in mortality, had higher WBC Statistical Analysis count (p=0.014) (Table 2). SPSS 16.0 for Windows was used for statistical analysis. The normal distribution of the numerical variables Discussion was analyzed by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Data were Splenic infarct is a rare condition. Many factors presented using descriptive statistics, given as mean ± contribute to the etiology of splenic infarct. These standard deviation and percentages. The Mann-Whitney factors include thromboembolic events leading U and chi-square tests