Successful medical treatment for a Crohn’s disease patient with a perforation by a second-generation patency capsule

Background and study aims  Symptomatic capsule retention is a very rare adverse event following patency capsule, and the vast majority of cases are resolved without either surgical or endoscopic intervention. We herein describe a rare case of small bowel perforation after swallowing a patency capsul...

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Autores principales: Tanabe, Hiroki, Ando, Katsuyoshi, Ohdaira, Hironori, Suzuki, Yutaka, Konuma, Ichiro, Ueno, Nobuhiro, Fujiya, Mikihiro, Okumura, Toshikatsu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: © Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2018
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30539066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-0752-9903
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Sumario:Background and study aims  Symptomatic capsule retention is a very rare adverse event following patency capsule, and the vast majority of cases are resolved without either surgical or endoscopic intervention. We herein describe a rare case of small bowel perforation after swallowing a patency capsule in a 37-year-old man suspected of having Crohn’s disease.

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