Sepsis secondary to intraabdominal hollow viscus perforation

Abstract

Sepsis is an always severe syndrome, caused by physiological, pathological and biochemical abnormalities associated with an infection and is responsible for a high mortality rate among hospitalized persons. Several factors increase the susceptibility to develop it being representative the extreme ages, the associated comorbidity, the states that weaken the immune system and from the clinical point of view the differences mainly obey the classification of the causal germ that triggers the release of toxic mediators, Being very feared those caused by gram-negative intraluminales germs. We present a case of abdominal pain of ten days of evolution, treated empirically by home methods in search of analgesia without encouraging results, which came to the Hospital General Docente Ambato, Ecuador in 2017, where it was decided to operate for generalized peritonitis and sepsis Of possible intra-abdominal etiology; Evidencing Meckel Diverticulo perforation operative, with its respective complications given its torpid evolution that also motivated the accomplishment of derivative surgical procedures