Gastrobronchial fistula a rare complication post laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy

Gastrobronchial fistula is a rare but serious complication of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy with significant morbidity and mortality. We present the case of a 30-year-old man who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for morbid obesity and presented later with a history of chronic productive c...

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Autor principal: Alharbi, Sultan Rabah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3731862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23922615
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.114285
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description Gastrobronchial fistula is a rare but serious complication of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy with significant morbidity and mortality. We present the case of a 30-year-old man who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for morbid obesity and presented later with a history of chronic productive cough. Upper gastrointestinal series showed the presence of a communicating fistula between the stomach and the left lung bronchial tree.
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spelling pubmed-37318622013-08-06 Gastrobronchial fistula a rare complication post laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy Alharbi, Sultan Rabah Ann Thorac Med Case Report Gastrobronchial fistula is a rare but serious complication of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy with significant morbidity and mortality. We present the case of a 30-year-old man who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for morbid obesity and presented later with a history of chronic productive cough. Upper gastrointestinal series showed the presence of a communicating fistula between the stomach and the left lung bronchial tree. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3731862/ /pubmed/23922615 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.114285 Text en Copyright: © Annals of Thoracic Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gastrobronchial fistula a rare complication post laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
title Gastrobronchial fistula a rare complication post laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
title_full Gastrobronchial fistula a rare complication post laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
title_fullStr Gastrobronchial fistula a rare complication post laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
title_full_unstemmed Gastrobronchial fistula a rare complication post laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
title_short Gastrobronchial fistula a rare complication post laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
title_sort gastrobronchial fistula a rare complication post laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3731862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23922615
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.114285
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