Gastric Emphysema Induced by Severe Vomiting

Gastric emphysema or air in the stomach wall is a rare condition resulting from the disruption of gastric mucosa and entry of air into the stomach wall which could be from severe vomiting, instrumentation or endoscopy, gastric ischemia, and dissection of air from the mediastinum. Treatment is usuall...

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Autores principales: Ghneim, Amal, Meegada, Sreenath
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6984179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32025409
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6487
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description Gastric emphysema or air in the stomach wall is a rare condition resulting from the disruption of gastric mucosa and entry of air into the stomach wall which could be from severe vomiting, instrumentation or endoscopy, gastric ischemia, and dissection of air from the mediastinum. Treatment is usually conservative and supportive. We report the case of a 70-year-old woman with a three-day history of nausea and vomiting who presented with gastric emphysema on computed tomography (CT) imaging; she responded very well with conservative treatment and was discharged in a stable condition.
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spelling pubmed-69841792020-02-05 Gastric Emphysema Induced by Severe Vomiting Ghneim, Amal Meegada, Sreenath Cureus General Surgery Gastric emphysema or air in the stomach wall is a rare condition resulting from the disruption of gastric mucosa and entry of air into the stomach wall which could be from severe vomiting, instrumentation or endoscopy, gastric ischemia, and dissection of air from the mediastinum. Treatment is usually conservative and supportive. We report the case of a 70-year-old woman with a three-day history of nausea and vomiting who presented with gastric emphysema on computed tomography (CT) imaging; she responded very well with conservative treatment and was discharged in a stable condition. Cureus 2019-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6984179/ /pubmed/32025409 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6487 Text en Copyright © 2019, Ghneim et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6984179/
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