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My bet would be cholangitis or gallstone pancreatitis - he probably died of complications of gallbladder disease, not gallbladder surgery.
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Yep...that's what's being reported.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020804287.html
Hit the large intestine, went home....developed fever, became septic and was in icu...supposedly he was "improving" as of last wednesday...yikes!
Hit the large intestine, went home....developed fever, became septic and was in icu...supposedly he was "improving" as of last wednesday...yikes!
What a disaster. I'd hate to be the surgeon on this one.
intra-abdominal sepsis has a very high mortality. i'm sure the surgeon did not want this outcome, but it's surgery - **** happens.
