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Table 3 Description of Patients With Severe Gastrointestinal Complications (n = 17)

From: Morbidity and mortality of serious gastrointestinal complications after lung transplantation

Complications

N

Timing

Operative management

Mortality

Early

Late

Yes

No

Biliar pathology:

Acute Cholecystitis

Papillitis due to cholelithiasis

4 (23.5%)

3

1

0

4

4

0

1

Paralytic ileus

Small bowel obstruction

Large bowel obstruction

2 (11.7%)

1

1

1

1

2

0

2

Gastrointestinal bleeding

Upper: Peptic ulcer

AGML

Lower: Polys

4 (23.5%)

1

1

2

1

3

3

1

3

Perforations

Diverticulitis

Peritonitis

3 (17.6)

2

1

3

0

3

0

2

Pneumatosis coli

3 (17.6)

0

3

 

3

1

  1. AGML Acute gastric mucosal lesions