A 65-year-old woman, Akua, is undergoing elective open repair of a 6.1 cm infrarenal AAA at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. A transperitoneal midline laparotomy has been performed. The small bowel has bee…
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A 60-year-old man is admitted to the district hospital surgical ward in Brong-Ahafo with a 2-day history of severe back pain and mild central abdominal discomfort. He has a known 5.2 cm infrarenal AAA…
A 68-year-old man, Kwame, is referred from a district hospital in the Brong-Ahafo region to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital with a 6-hour history of sudden-onset severe central abdominal pain radiating…
A 67-year-old man, Kwame, is brought by his relatives to the emergency department at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after collapsing at home. He has a 3-hour history of severe, constant central abdomi…
A 70-year-old man, Mensah, presents to the regional hospital in Kumasi with a three-hour history of severe central abdominal pain radiating to his back. He is haemodynamically stable: blood pressure 1…
A 72-year-old woman, Akua, is brought by relatives to the emergency department at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in a state of haemodynamic compromise. She gives a 6-hour history of sudden-onset severe ce…
A 70-year-old man, Mensah, presents to the Komfo Anokye vascular outpatient clinic for pre-operative assessment before elective repair of a 5.8 cm infrarenal AAA. He has a history of ischaemic heart d…
A 72-year-old woman, Adwoa, is seen in the vascular outpatient clinic at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital following a routine abdominal ultrasound performed for gallstones. The ultrasound incidentally revea…
A 68-year-old man, Kwame, is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after a bedside ultrasound performed by the district surgeon demonstrated a fusiform dil…
A 68-year-old man, Kwame, is reviewed in the vascular outpatient clinic at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after a routine abdominal ultrasound performed for urological symptoms revealed an incidental infr…
A 72-year-old man, Yaw, attends the vascular outpatient clinic at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital following a surveillance ultrasound. He has no abdominal symptoms. He is a retired teacher, ex-smoker (stop…
A 72-year-old woman, Adwoa, is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo to the regional hospital after an incidental finding of a pulsatile abdominal mass during assessment for lower urinary t…
A 72-year-old woman, Adwoa, is referred to the vascular surgical outpatient clinic at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital following an incidental finding on an abdominal ultrasound performed for gallstones…
A 72-year-old man, Yaw, is brought by relatives to the resus bay of a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region at 02:00 hours. He gives a 4-hour history of sudden-onset severe tearing pain radiating fr…
A 68-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the emergency department at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital by his relatives after collapsing at home. He describes a sudden-onset tearing pain radiating from his ce…
A 70-year-old man, Mensah, presents to the regional hospital in Kumasi with a 6-week history of dull, constant central abdominal pain and a palpable pulsatile abdominal mass. He has a background of hy…
A 67-year-old man, Kofi, is being worked up for elective repair of a 5.8 cm infrarenal AAA at the Korle Bu vascular unit. He has a history of ischaemic heart disease (previous myocardial infarction 3 …
A 62-year-old woman, Adwoa, is seen in the vascular outpatient clinic at a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region. She was referred after an abdominal ultrasound performed for unrelated dyspepsia inc…
A 68-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the Komfo Anokye emergency theatre by relatives after collapsing at home. He is a known hypertensive on amlodipine and has smoked 20 cigarettes per day for 40 y…
A 68-year-old man, Kwame, is referred from a district hospital in the Ashanti Region to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after a bedside ultrasound performed by the district surgeon revealed a 5.8 cm in…
A 68-year-old male farmer, Kwame, is brought by relatives to the emergency department of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after sudden onset of severe, tearing left flank and back pain of two hours dura…
A 68-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the Komfo Anokye emergency theatre by relatives after sudden onset of severe tearing central abdominal pain radiating to the back, associated with two syncopal …
A 65-year-old man, Yaw, attends the vascular surgery outpatient clinic at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) after being referred by his general practitioner. He is asymptomatic but was fou…
Afia, a 34-year-old woman, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre after a motor vehicle crash. She was a restrained rear-seat passenger. She is haemodynamically stable: BP 126/82 mmHg, HR 88/min, R…
A 28-year-old man, Kofi, is brought to Komfo Anokye ED after a high-speed road traffic collision. He is restless and diaphoretic. Vitals: BP 88/60 mmHg, HR 128 bpm, RR 24/min, SpO2 96% on 15L O2. FAST…
A 35-year-old woman, Akosua, is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo after a motor vehicle crash. On arrival at the regional hospital A&E, her BP is 74/50 mmHg and HR is 138 bpm. The pelvi…
A 19-year-old male footballer, Yaw, is brought to Korle Bu emergency centre after sustaining a direct blow to the left upper abdomen. He is haemodynamically stable: BP 118/76 mmHg, HR 94 bpm. CT abdom…
A 35-year-old woman, Akua, presents to a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region after being stabbed in the right upper quadrant with a kitchen knife. She is haemodynamically stable: blood pressure 11…
A 40-year-old man, Kofi, is brought to the Korle Bu general surgical unit after a high-speed road traffic accident. He was a motorcyclist struck by a lorry. He is haemodynamically stable: BP 118/76 mm…
Yaw, a 22-year-old university student with known sickle-cell disease (HbSS), is admitted to the UGMC surgical firm after a road traffic accident in which he sustained blunt abdominal trauma. He is hae…