Surgical Management of Gallstone Ileus: A Clinical Case Report

A 74-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, bladder suspension, and right hip surgery presented with a one-day history of cramping abdominal pain, intermittent vomiting, and obstipation. Bowel obstruction was confirmed with imaging, and the decisio...

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Autores principales: Drinnon, Kyle, Puckett, Yana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8723775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35003974
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20141
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description A 74-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, bladder suspension, and right hip surgery presented with a one-day history of cramping abdominal pain, intermittent vomiting, and obstipation. Bowel obstruction was confirmed with imaging, and the decision was made to proceed to the operating room for an exploratory laparotomy. During the procedure, a gallstone was found in the terminal ileum and was removed.
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spelling pubmed-87237752022-01-06 Surgical Management of Gallstone Ileus: A Clinical Case Report Drinnon, Kyle Puckett, Yana Cureus Gastroenterology A 74-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, bladder suspension, and right hip surgery presented with a one-day history of cramping abdominal pain, intermittent vomiting, and obstipation. Bowel obstruction was confirmed with imaging, and the decision was made to proceed to the operating room for an exploratory laparotomy. During the procedure, a gallstone was found in the terminal ileum and was removed. Cureus 2021-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8723775/ /pubmed/35003974 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20141 Text en Copyright © 2021, Drinnon et al. https://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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Surgical Management of Gallstone Ileus: A Clinical Case Report
title Surgical Management of Gallstone Ileus: A Clinical Case Report
title_full Surgical Management of Gallstone Ileus: A Clinical Case Report
title_fullStr Surgical Management of Gallstone Ileus: A Clinical Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Surgical Management of Gallstone Ileus: A Clinical Case Report
title_short Surgical Management of Gallstone Ileus: A Clinical Case Report
title_sort surgical management of gallstone ileus: a clinical case report
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8723775/
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