scholarly journals Lighter Ingestion as an Uncommon Cause of Severe Vomiting in a Schizophrenia Patient

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yahya Atayan ◽  
Yasir Furkan Cagin ◽  
Mehmet Ali Erdogan ◽  
Yılmaz Bilgic ◽  
Remzi Bestas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Emergency Treatment ◽  
Foreign Bodies ◽  
Schizophrenia Patient ◽  
Endoscopic Therapy ◽  
Plain Radiograph ◽  
Severe Vomiting ◽  
Polypectomy Snare ◽  
Clinical Conditions ◽  
Swallowed Foreign Bodies

Background. Foreign bodies in the gastrointestinal tract are important morbid and mortal clinical conditions. Particularly, emergency treatment is required for cutting and drilling bodies. The majority of ingested foreign bodies (80–90%) leave gastrointestinal tract without creating problems. In 10–20% of cases, intervention is absolutely required. Less than 1% of cases need surgery. In this paper, we present a schizophrenia patient who swallowed multiple lighters.Case. A 21-year-old male schizophrenic patient who uses psychotic drugs presented to the emergency department with the complaints of abdominal pain, severe vomiting, and inability to swallow for a week. His physical examination revealed epigastric tenderness. A plain radiograph of the abdomen revealed multiple tiny metallic densities. Gastroscopy was performed. The lighters were not allowing the passage, and some of them had penetrated the gastric mucosa, and bezoars were observed. One lighter was extracted with the help of the polypectomy snare. Other lighters as a bezoar were removed by surgery.Conclusion. Excessive vomiting of swallowed foreign bodies in the etiology of psychotic patients should be kept in mind. Endoscopic therapy can be performed in the early stages in these patients, but in the late stage surgery is inevitable.

scholarly journals A gastrointestinalis traktusból migrált, lenyelt idegen testek esetei

2019 ◽  
Vol 160 (42) ◽  
pp. 1677-1681
Author(s):  
Ákos Balázs ◽  
Tamás Vass ◽  
Dávid Tárnoki ◽  
Zsolt Baranyai
Keyword(s):  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Foreign Bodies ◽  
Surgical Intervention ◽  
Left Lobe ◽  
Full Recovery ◽  
Diagnostic Difficulties ◽  
Right Lobe ◽  
The Right ◽  
Swallowed Foreign Bodies ◽  
Septic Condition

Abstract: Migration of swallowed foreign bodies from the gastrointestinal tract is a rare phenomenon compared with the total number of ingestions. In the reported two cases, the serious septic condition indicated urgent surgical intervention. We found a piece of wire swallowed a few months earlier in the right lobe of the liver and the retroperitoneum in case one, and a piece of wire in the pericardium, which migrated from the stomach through the left lobe of the liver, in case two. Abscesses and phlegmonae were found in the retroperitoneum and then in the femoral region requiring a reoperation in case one, and in the liver and pericardium in case two. After the evacuation of abscesses, both patients made full recovery. Diagnostic difficulties and therapeutic challenges served the reasons to present these cases. Orv Hetil. 2019; 160(42): 1677–1681.

scholarly journals Symptomatology of gastrointestinal tract foreign bodies

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. I. Davidov ◽  
V. M. Subbotin ◽  
O. E. Nikonova
Keyword(s):  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Foreign Bodies ◽  
Clinical Course ◽  
Accurate Diagnosis ◽  
Exercise Stress ◽  
Epigastric Region ◽  
Healthcare Practice ◽  
And Training ◽  
Clinical Problems ◽  
Swallowed Foreign Bodies

Aim. To study the clinical problems and develop the symptomatology of the foreign bodies (FB) of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). Materials and methods. Ninety patients with GIT foreign bodies were observed over the period from 1997 to 2017. To diagnose, a complex of endoscopic and radial methods was used. Localization, size and type of the detected foreign bodies were compared with the symptoms revealed. Results. Fifty patients intentionally swallowed foreign bodies, 40 – accidentally. Altogether, 90 patients swallowed 193 items (nails, needles, pieces of wire etc.). On the basis of the study, three forms of clinical course regarding the swallowed GIT FB were singled out: latent, manifest and complicated. The pathognomonic symptoms of GIT FB are “migrant” abdominal pains associated with migration of FB along the GIT lumen, intensification of pains while moving, exercise stress and palpation, feeling of “heaviness” in epigastric region. Multiple gastric FB cause the auscultative symptom of “ringing”. Pains, available with GIT FB, are not connected with taking food and are not ceased after taking antacids. Conclusions. Introduction of the developed GIT FB symptomatology into healthcare practice and training of physicians will contribute to earlier and more accurate diagnosis.

scholarly journals Unusual foreign body in the upper digestive tract: case report

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 850
Author(s):  
Snigdha Elaprolu ◽  
Gowri Sankar Marimuthu ◽  
Raghul Sekar ◽  
Sunil Kumar Saxena
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Foreign Body ◽  
Digestive Tract ◽  
Foreign Bodies ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Unusual Foreign Body ◽  
Upper Digestive Tract ◽  
Entire Gastrointestinal Tract

<p class="abstract">Unusual foreign bodies in the digestive tract are common in psychiatric patients and children requiring screening of the entire gastrointestinal tract. We here report two cases of unusual ingested blunt foreign body in the upper digestive tract managed differently.</p>

scholarly journals Endoscopic management of foreign bodies in the upper gastrointestinal tract

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 3277
Author(s):  
Pramod Mirji ◽  
Vikas Daddenavar ◽  
Eshwar Kalburgi
Keyword(s):  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Foreign Body ◽  
Foreign Bodies ◽  
Flexible Endoscopy ◽  
Definitive Treatment ◽  
Endoscopic Management ◽  
Food Bolus Impaction ◽  
Bolus Impaction ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Upper Gastrointestinal

Background: Foreign body ingestion and food bolus impaction is a common clinical scenario and can present as an endoscopic emergency. Though majority of them pass spontaneously 10-20% require endoscopic intervention. Flexible endoscopy is recommended as therapeutic measure with minimal complications. The aim of our study is to present 2 years’ experience in dealing with foreign bodies in the upper gastrointestinal tract.Methods: Cases of foreign body (FB) ingestion admitted to department of general surgery from January 2015 to December 2016 were evaluated. The patients were reviewed with details on age, sex, type of FB, its location in gastrointestinal tract, treatment and outcome.Results: A total of 23 cases were studied. Age range was 2-75 years. Males were predominant (60.87%). Coins were found most commonly (52.17%). Esophagus was the commonest site of FB lodgment (65.22%). Upper esophagus being the most common (39.13%). Upper gastrointestinal flexible endoscopy was useful in retrieving FB in all the 23 cases. There were no complications throughout the study period.Conclusions: Flexible endoscopy should be used as definitive treatment and endoscopic treatment is safe and effective. 

scholarly journals Two cases of gastrointestinal trichobezoar in children

2001 ◽  
Vol 82 (5) ◽  
pp. 379-380
Author(s):  
P. N. Grebnev ◽  
Ya. M. Mustafin ◽  
V. I. Bulashov ◽  
M. V. Tanyashin ◽  
O. M. Suchkov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Foreign Bodies

Trichobezoars are among the rare foreign bodies of the gastrointestinal tract. They occur more often in girls who have a bad habit of biting and swallowing hair. Gradually in the stomach forms a hard-to-separate ball of hair, resembling a tumor. In our practice, we observed two. cases of trichobezoar gastrointestinal tract in girls 7 and 8 years.

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