Ann Clin Surg | Volume 2, Issue 1 | Case Report | Open Access

Omental Infarction: A Case Report of a Conservatively Managed 60 –Year Old Ethiopian Woman

Bogale GT¹, Subah AY^2*, Meaza M³, Tiruneh A³ and Shashe G³

¹Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
²Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
³Department of Surgery, Zewditu Memorial Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

^*Correspondance to: Subah AY 

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Abstract

surgical abdomen. Consideration of high order imaging modality in patients with right sided abdominal pain in consistent with typical presentation of the common surgical conditions can establish its preoperative diagnosis. Although the gold standard treatment modality for omental infarction remains to be established, inpatient conservative management should be considered in selected patients while deferring emergent surgical intervention unless strongly indicated by complications. This case report is the first one documented African setting to be diagnosed preoperatively and treated conservatively

Keywords:

Omental infarction; Acute abdominal pain; Conservative management; Ethiopia

Citation:

Bogale GT, Subah AY, Meaza M, Tiruneh A, Shashe G. Omental Infarction: A Case Report of a Conservatively Managed 60 –Year Old Ethiopian Woman. Ann Clin Surg. 2021;2(1):1013.