The natural progression of a fistulizing gallstone resulting in massive gastrointestinal hemorrhage and Bouveret syndrome, a rare case

Gallstones are seen very common, especially in the Western World. While most patients are asymptomatic, gallstones can cause life-threatening complications. Here, we present a rare and nearly fatal complication of gallstones, showing the natural progression of gallstone disease. With two very unusua...

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Autores principales: Hoekstra, Elmer, van den Berg, Maarten Willem, Veenendaal, Roeland Andreas, Stuyt, Rogier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Singapore 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31654232
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12328-019-01054-x
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author Hoekstra, Elmer
van den Berg, Maarten Willem
Veenendaal, Roeland Andreas
Stuyt, Rogier
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description Gallstones are seen very common, especially in the Western World. While most patients are asymptomatic, gallstones can cause life-threatening complications. Here, we present a rare and nearly fatal complication of gallstones, showing the natural progression of gallstone disease. With two very unusual complications of gallstones which occurred in the same patient. Massive gastrointestinal bleeding, and the Bouveret syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-72397962020-05-27 The natural progression of a fistulizing gallstone resulting in massive gastrointestinal hemorrhage and Bouveret syndrome, a rare case Hoekstra, Elmer van den Berg, Maarten Willem Veenendaal, Roeland Andreas Stuyt, Rogier Clin J Gastroenterol Case Report Gallstones are seen very common, especially in the Western World. While most patients are asymptomatic, gallstones can cause life-threatening complications. Here, we present a rare and nearly fatal complication of gallstones, showing the natural progression of gallstone disease. With two very unusual complications of gallstones which occurred in the same patient. Massive gastrointestinal bleeding, and the Bouveret syndrome. Springer Singapore 2019-10-25 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7239796/ /pubmed/31654232 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12328-019-01054-x Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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