{"id":9218,"date":"2025-06-23T23:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9218\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T23:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:17:20","slug":"colon-cancer-patients-intestines-spontaneously-explode-after-common-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9218\/","title":{"rendered":"Colon cancer patient’s intestines ‘spontaneously’ explode after common operation"},"content":{"rendered":"

By EMILY JOSHU STERNE, SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 11:32 EDT, 23 June 2025 | Updated: 12:03 EDT, 23 June 2025 <\/p>\n

A man was rushed into emergency surgery after his colon ‘spontaneously’ exploded out of his abdomen following a common surgery.<\/p>\n

The 83-year-old suffered a ‘spontaneous evisceration’ of his small intestine – when parts of the intestines burst outside of body – following a hernia repair.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over three feet of his small intestine had burst through a two-inch hole in the skin due to the hernia, when parts of an organ bulge through a weak muscle or tissue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The protruding bowel had also become twisted, cutting off crucial blood supply.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though evisceration of the bowel is rare, hernias strike 5million Americans a year. Over 1million hernia repairs are performed a year, making it one of the most common operations in the US.<\/p>\n

Recent similar cases have included patients whose intestines burst through their body because they coughed too hard<\/a> or suffered trauma like a stab wound.<\/p>\n

However, the Romanian man’s doctors said he had no history of coughing fits or trauma, though he had multiple hernias.<\/p>\n

It’s estimated no more than 100 cases of evisceration have been reported in medical literature, and cases like the unnamed man’s have been seen just a handful of times, the doctors said.<\/p>\n

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A man in Romania’s small intestine spontaneously exploded out of his body after he suffered a hernia (stock image)<\/p>\n

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Doctors treating the man wrote in a medical journal<\/a>: ‘Evisceration of intra-abdominal organs is a rare, serious event.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

They wrote the condition is most often caused by traumatic injuries like stab or gunshot wounds or from a sudden increase in abdominal pressure. This may be caused by coughing or heavy lifting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These factors may thin and weaken the abdominal lining, making it less protective.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The unnamed man was a rectal cancer survivor, and the hernia had formed near his stoma, a surgical opening that helps waste pass into a collection bag instead of through the anus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He had already had one of these hernias, a parastomal hernia, repaired two years prior.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Surgeons fix a hernia by pushing the protruding tissue back in place and then closing up the weakened part of the abdominal wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After seeing the extent of the man’s evisceration, doctors transferred him to Military Clinical Emergency Hospital Sibiu in Romania from his local hospital in February 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By the time he was admitted, it had been six hours since the intestine initially burst.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite the injury, he was conscious and alert the entire time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Pictured above is a CT scan of the man’s hernia taken one month before is spontaneously exploded<\/p>\n

Doctors removed the last part of the small intestine, the ileum, and connected it to the large intestine – the colon – to repair the damage. They also corrected the opening in the man’s stoma.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The man was discharged eight days after surgery.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The doctors treating the man said only a handful of cases have been reported of spontaneous evisceration from a parastomal hernia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most of them involved patients with rectal cancer who had to receive a colostomy bag, and many suffered the injury due to intense coughing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In one 2012 case<\/a>, a 62-year-old rectal cancer survivor from Turkey was admitted to the hospital after suffering abdominal bloating, nausea, vomiting and swelling around the site of his colostomy operation.<\/p>\n

The vomiting and coughing caused the spontaneous evisceration.<\/p>\n

The 2012 case was believed to be the first official report of parastomal evisceration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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