S.-C. Chen¹,², J.-M. Chang¹,²,⁴, C.-S. Wang¹,³, C.-H. Kuo¹,⁴ and H.-C. Chen²,^{4 1}Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, ²Division of Nephrology, ³Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, and ⁴Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Intraperitoneal bladder rupture is a rare cause of acute abdomen with bloody ascites. We report herein the case of a patient who had alcoholic liver cirrhosis and multiple liver nodules, and experienced acute bloody ascites and oliguric acute renal failure in association with intraperitoneal bladder rupture. A 33-year-old male suffered from acute abdominal pain and oliguria following consumption of a large amount of alcohol and after blunt abdominal trauma. He was also found to have acute renal failure and newly onset bloody ascites that rapidly subsided following transurethral catheter drainage. Computed tomography cystography revealed intraperitoneal extravasation of contrast from the dome of the bladder, suggestive of intraperitoneal bladder rupture. The patient received surgical repair and was discharged with full recovery. This case shows that it is important for physicians to be aware of the possibility of intraperitoneal bladder rupture after alcohol consumption accompanied with abdominal blunt trauma. In particular, it has diagnostic complications for underlying liver tumors.Correspondence to:
C.-H. Kuo, MD
Department of Internal Medicine
Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital
Kaohsiung Medical University
482, Shan-Ming Rd., Hsiao-Kang Dist.
812 Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Email: 0840049@kmhk.kmu.edu.tw