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ArticleCureus2023

Incidence of Pneumoperitoneum After Gastrostomy Tube Removal.

Anas Mahmoud, Nizar Alyassin, Eyad Baghal, Ruhin Yuridullah, Yana Cavanagh, Matthew A Grossman

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Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anas MahmoudInternal Medicine, St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, Paterson, USA.
Nizar AlyassinInternal Medicine, St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, Paterson, USA.
Eyad BaghalGastroenterology, St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, Paterson, USA.
Ruhin YuridullahGastroenterology, St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, Paterson, USA.
Yana CavanaghGastroenterology, St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, Paterson, USA.
Matthew A GrossmanInterventional Gastroenterology, St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, Paterson, USA.
St. Joseph’s University Medical Center · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present the case of an 88-year-old man with a previous medical history of severe colitis and colonic strictures who presented with hematemesis. The patient was found to have a lower esophageal ulcer without any signs of perforation. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) revealed a scar in the greater curvature of the stomach from a previously removed gastrostomy tube two months prior. On CT imaging, an incidental finding of pneumoperitoneum was also found alongside stomach perforation near the healing scar. Due to the lack of evidence of any other colonic perforation, the patient was believed to have developed this pneumoperitoneum status post-gastrectomy tube removal two months prior to presentation. Pneumoperitoneum has a wide range of presenting symptoms that vary in severity and nature, and our patient failed to present with any physical or laboratory signs of infection. Over the course of the next four months, the patient was monitored with serial CT scans, during which the pneumoperitoneum resolved. In this report, we present a case of a patient who was found to develop pneumoperitoneum post-gastric tube removal and its complete resolution without surgical or procedural intervention.

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gastrostomy tubegastrostomy tube removalnonsurgical pneumoperitoneumpercutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (peg)silent pneumoperitoneum

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PMID38021967
PMCPMC10673697
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