Gastrointestinal perforation causes
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Mohammed Abdelwahed M.D[2]
Overview
Causes of spontaneous intestinal perforation in adults:
- Crohn’s disease
- Celiac disease
- Graft-vs-host disease
- Infections:
- Viral: Cytomegalovirus
- Bacteria: Salmonella paratyphi, mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Parasites: Ascaris lumbricoides
- Protozoa: Entameba histolytica
- Drugs: NSAIDs and indomethacin
- Enteric-coated potassium chloride
- Monoclonal antibodies: Bevicuzimab
- Meckel’s diverticulum
- Radiation-induced vascular injury
- Atherosclerotic vascular occlusion
- Buerger’s disease
- Giant cell arteritis
- Wegener’s granulomatosis
- Henoch-schonlein purpura
- Allergic granulomatous arteritis