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Gastric Obstruction by Opium Packets: A Case Report

BACKGROUND: We reported a case of gastric obstruction in a body packer who swallowed a large number of opium packets. CASE REPORT: A 36-year-old man opium addict visited the emergency department with epigastric pain for three days. He swallowed nearly 90 packets of opium for smuggling purposes four...

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Autores principales: Ramazani, Yeganeh, Nemati, Ahmad, Moshiri, Mohammad, Motie, Mohammad Reza, Jomehpour, Hamid, Etemad, Leila
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Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences and Health Services 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10408747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37559790
http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/ahj.2022.1336
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author Ramazani, Yeganeh
Nemati, Ahmad
Moshiri, Mohammad
Motie, Mohammad Reza
Jomehpour, Hamid
Etemad, Leila
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description BACKGROUND: We reported a case of gastric obstruction in a body packer who swallowed a large number of opium packets. CASE REPORT: A 36-year-old man opium addict visited the emergency department with epigastric pain for three days. He swallowed nearly 90 packets of opium for smuggling purposes four days earlier. He self-administered laxatives. In contrast, many times vomiting, he defecated only four packets and vomited one packet. The abdominal X-rays showed some amounts of fluid-air levels and multiple cylindrical opacities with the double-condom sign, corresponding to the distended stomach. Due to the worsening of his abdominal symptoms, he underwent an urgent laparotomy and 84 packets (4-6 cm in size and 8-10 g/ packet of opium) with a total weight of 870 g. They were wrapped in some layers of plastic and tied at the ends. He was discharged in stable condition. CONCLUSION: A large number of ingested drug packets can induce gastrointestinal obstruction.
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spelling pubmed-104087472023-08-09 Gastric Obstruction by Opium Packets: A Case Report Ramazani, Yeganeh Nemati, Ahmad Moshiri, Mohammad Motie, Mohammad Reza Jomehpour, Hamid Etemad, Leila Addict Health Case Report BACKGROUND: We reported a case of gastric obstruction in a body packer who swallowed a large number of opium packets. CASE REPORT: A 36-year-old man opium addict visited the emergency department with epigastric pain for three days. He swallowed nearly 90 packets of opium for smuggling purposes four days earlier. He self-administered laxatives. In contrast, many times vomiting, he defecated only four packets and vomited one packet. The abdominal X-rays showed some amounts of fluid-air levels and multiple cylindrical opacities with the double-condom sign, corresponding to the distended stomach. Due to the worsening of his abdominal symptoms, he underwent an urgent laparotomy and 84 packets (4-6 cm in size and 8-10 g/ packet of opium) with a total weight of 870 g. They were wrapped in some layers of plastic and tied at the ends. He was discharged in stable condition. CONCLUSION: A large number of ingested drug packets can induce gastrointestinal obstruction. Kerman University of Medical Sciences and Health Services 2022-10 2022-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10408747/ /pubmed/37559790 http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/ahj.2022.1336 Text en © 2022 Kerman University of Medical Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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Ramazani, Yeganeh
Nemati, Ahmad
Moshiri, Mohammad
Motie, Mohammad Reza
Jomehpour, Hamid
Etemad, Leila
Gastric Obstruction by Opium Packets: A Case Report
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title_short Gastric Obstruction by Opium Packets: A Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10408747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37559790
http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/ahj.2022.1336
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