Treatment of a Gastric Lactobezoar with N-Acetylcysteine

Lactobezoars are a rare finding with potentially serious sequelae in pediatric patients with feeding intolerance. Aggressive treatment may be preferred to traditional treatments to avoid complications in medically complex patients. In our patient, N-acetylcysteine lavage was a safe and effective alt...

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Autores principales: Sparks, Brandon, Kesavan, Anil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25505999
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/254741
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description Lactobezoars are a rare finding with potentially serious sequelae in pediatric patients with feeding intolerance. Aggressive treatment may be preferred to traditional treatments to avoid complications in medically complex patients. In our patient, N-acetylcysteine lavage was a safe and effective alternative that resulted in rapid resolution of his feeding intolerance.
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spelling pubmed-42583652014-12-11 Treatment of a Gastric Lactobezoar with N-Acetylcysteine Sparks, Brandon Kesavan, Anil Case Rep Gastrointest Med Case Report Lactobezoars are a rare finding with potentially serious sequelae in pediatric patients with feeding intolerance. Aggressive treatment may be preferred to traditional treatments to avoid complications in medically complex patients. In our patient, N-acetylcysteine lavage was a safe and effective alternative that resulted in rapid resolution of his feeding intolerance. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4258365/ /pubmed/25505999 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/254741 Text en Copyright © 2014 B. Sparks and A. Kesavan. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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