Hepatic Capsular Avulsion After Video-Assisted Thoracic Biopsy of the Lung

Subcapsular hepatic hematoma as a complicating cardiac surgery

“…3 Other reported cases involved compression trauma and shear stress due to cardiopulmonary resuscitation and intra-abdominal adhesions, respectively. 4,5 Hepatic hematoma development without direct trauma during cardiac surgery has been reported in a case of endocarditis due to prosthetic valve infection, 1 where urgent cardiac surgery was performed under uncontrolled sepsis and progressive congestive failure. Furthermore, septic embolism-induced hepatic bleeding in a patient who received high-dose heparin treatment during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for the first 24 postoperative hours.…”