A Rare Case: Spontaneous Omental Bleeding After Tenckhoff Catheter Placement

Abstract

Omental bleeding may occur due to the rupture of an omental blood vessel. Some case associated with trauma, neoplasms, omental torsion, varicose veins, aneurysms, and vasculitis. A case of 27 years old female with nephritis lupus, hypertension, and end-stage kidney disease on routine hemodialysis who came up to Tenckhoff Catheter placement for continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis with Bandung technique. She was diagnosed with lupus for 11 years. She got omental bleeding after Tenckhoff catheter placement. This patient had no signs of trauma, vascular injury, or hematoma after an exploratory laparotomy to find the cause and source of bleeding.