The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by abdominal trauma (abdominal trauma):
Liver, gallbladder, and biliary tract – Pancreas (pancreas) (K70-K77; K80-K87).
- Posttraumatic cholecystitis (gallbladder inflammation caused by the injury).
- Posttraumatic pancreatitis (pancreatitis caused by the injury).
Mouth, esophagus (esophagus), stomach, and intestines (K00-K67; K90-K93).
- Intestinal prolapse (bowel prolapse) during opening of the peritoneal cavity (abdominal cavity).
- Ileus (intestinal obstruction)
- Intra-abdominal hemorrhage – due to ingress/egress of the mesentery (mesentery/doubling of the peritoneum, originating from the posterior abdominal wall) or due to vascular injury
- Peritonitis (inflammation of the peritoneum) – due to perforation (rupture) of intestinal loops or rupture (tear) of the gallbladder or bile ducts
Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99).
- Abdominal compartment syndrome – prolonged intra-abdominal pressure elevation of > 20 mmHg → intestinal hypoperfusion (decreased blood flow to the intestine), compression of the inferior vena cava (inferior vena cava) and consequent decrease in cardiac output, oliguria (decreased urine output with a daily maximum of 500 ml) to anuria (maximum 100 ml of urine per day), pulmonary atelectasis (failure to ventilate sections of the lungs); Lethality (mortality relative to the total number of people suffering from the disease) 20-40%.
- Shock due to mass hemorrhage
Possible concomitant injuries in polytrauma (multiple injury).
- Pelvic fractures (fractures of the pelvis).
- Pneumothorax – collapse of the lung caused by an accumulation of air between the visceral pleura (lung pleura) and the parietal pleura (chest pleura)
- Retroperitoneal hematoma – bruising in the retroperitoneal space (structures that lie behind the peritoneum and are not enclosed by it)
- Serial rib fractures (at least three adjacent ribs are involved)
- Skull fractures
- Injuries of the extremities
- Injuries of the cervical spine
- Vertebral fractures (vertebral fractures)
- Cerebral hemorrhages (brain hemorrhages)
- Diaphragmatic contusion (bruised diaphragm).
- Diaphragmatic rupture (rupture of the diaphragm)