[Anonymous]

Stercoral peritonitis after ASCT

by Anonymous on Sat Apr 06, 2013 6:58 am

Hello everybody,

My mother is 74 years old. She was in stringent complete remission for about 11 months and we decided to proceed to an autologous stem cell transplant. The transplant went fine but the day +13 my mother experienced a stercoral perforation and she had to proceed to the surgery immediately.

Now she is at day +2 after the surgery, she is completely lucid, her organ function is normal and her leukocytes have recovered at 6.8(yesterday were 3.8 and 2 days ago 2). How critical are the next days and how many days are concidered critical? How big is the mortality rate?

Best regards
Harris

[Moderator's note: A stercoral perforation is "the perforation or rupture of the intestine's walls" (Wikipedia). Peritonitis "is an inflammation of the peritoneum, the thin tissue that lines the inner wall of the abdomen and covers most of the abdominal organs" (Wikipedia again).]

[Anonymous]

Re: Stercoral peritonitis after ASCT

by Anonymous on Tue Apr 23, 2013 1:42 pm

Good afternoon,

My mother has recovered and she is back home. The transplant was performed 30 days ago and the surgery 17. After the transplant i noticed that she doesn't hear well. Is it normal? Has somebody else experienced something like that? Also she is extremelly tired and she want to be all day in bed. The same time she tells me that she feels terrible.

Best regards
Harris

[Christa's Mom]

Re: Stercoral peritonitis after ASCT

by Christa's Mom on Wed Apr 24, 2013 2:05 pm

Harris,

I'm so sorry your mom had such troubles after her SCT. EJ's diagnosis of multiple myeloma came when he had to have emergency surgery for a ruptured diverticulitis (sp?) in his colon. I think the surgery to repair that was harder on him than the SCT. I can't imagine having to have both surgery and a SCT in the same month! In both cases, EJ did his best to get up and exercise/walk a bit every day. It really helped him get his energy back. If your mom is on pain killers, they may also be making her feel tired or woozy.

Good luck,

Lyn