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P Baguley

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Anabolic steroid accelerated multicompartment syndrome following trauma.

The case is reported of a 23 year old male body builder who was involved in a road traffic accident after taking anabolic steroids. The resulting trauma caused a severe life threatening acute multicompartment syndrome resulting in the need for urgent multiple fasciotomies.

Accidents, Traffic↗

Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms.

A series of 180 consecutive patients with ruptured aortic aneurysms has been studied to determine the causes of death. 18% died before operation could be carried out, 8% proved inoperable and a further 10.5% died before operation could be completed. Overall mortality was 75%. By multivariate analysis, the most significant preoperative features influencing survival were a systolic BP less than 80 mmHg on admission and a history of hypertension, angina or myocardial infarct. The mortality increased with increasing age. Administration of fresh frozen plasma preoperatively significantly increased survival. However, we could not identify a single group of patients for whom the outcome was inevitably fatal.

Adult↗