A Rare Case of Severe Diarrhea: Gastrocolic Fistula Caused by Migration of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube

Gastrocolic fistula is a rare complication of the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement procedure. This complication occurs due to penetration of interposed colon when a PEG tube is placed into the stomach. It can go unrecognized, becoming evident only when a tube replacement is perfor...

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Autores principales: Pugliese, Maria Elena, Battaglia, Riccardo, Cerasa, Antonio, Lucca, Lucia Francesca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10178304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37174805
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11091263
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author Pugliese, Maria Elena
Battaglia, Riccardo
Cerasa, Antonio
Lucca, Lucia Francesca
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Cerasa, Antonio
Lucca, Lucia Francesca
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description Gastrocolic fistula is a rare complication of the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement procedure. This complication occurs due to penetration of interposed colon when a PEG tube is placed into the stomach. It can go unrecognized, becoming evident only when a tube replacement is performed or tube migration occurs. We report a case of severe, intractable diarrhea occurring about one month after the PEG procedure in a patient with severe traumatic brain injury. We present our case and discuss its significance with the aim of raising clinicians’ awareness of this rare condition.
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spelling pubmed-101783042023-05-13 A Rare Case of Severe Diarrhea: Gastrocolic Fistula Caused by Migration of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube Pugliese, Maria Elena Battaglia, Riccardo Cerasa, Antonio Lucca, Lucia Francesca Healthcare (Basel) Case Report Gastrocolic fistula is a rare complication of the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement procedure. This complication occurs due to penetration of interposed colon when a PEG tube is placed into the stomach. It can go unrecognized, becoming evident only when a tube replacement is performed or tube migration occurs. We report a case of severe, intractable diarrhea occurring about one month after the PEG procedure in a patient with severe traumatic brain injury. We present our case and discuss its significance with the aim of raising clinicians’ awareness of this rare condition. MDPI 2023-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10178304/ /pubmed/37174805 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11091263 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Pugliese, Maria Elena
Battaglia, Riccardo
Cerasa, Antonio
Lucca, Lucia Francesca
A Rare Case of Severe Diarrhea: Gastrocolic Fistula Caused by Migration of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube
title A Rare Case of Severe Diarrhea: Gastrocolic Fistula Caused by Migration of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube
title_full A Rare Case of Severe Diarrhea: Gastrocolic Fistula Caused by Migration of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Severe Diarrhea: Gastrocolic Fistula Caused by Migration of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Severe Diarrhea: Gastrocolic Fistula Caused by Migration of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube
title_short A Rare Case of Severe Diarrhea: Gastrocolic Fistula Caused by Migration of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube
title_sort rare case of severe diarrhea: gastrocolic fistula caused by migration of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10178304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37174805
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11091263
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