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Acute abdominal pain in children occurs often and requires rapid clarification. Hints as to the condition are often given by the first impression and the case history of the patient. When the clinical examination and laboratory results do not lead to a clear finding, imaging methods such as a sonography can clarify the case. The most common cause for abdominal pain in infants is acute enteritis, mostly brought about by rotaviruses. Additional diagnoses are abdominal hernia, malrotation, hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, invagination or gastroesophageal reflux. In school-age children, the classic finding is "appendicitis". This should be differentiated from constipation, gastritis, pancreatitis, sigmoid volvulus, bowel and intestinal obstruction or, perhaps, gallstone trouble.
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PMID:[Acute abdominal pain in childhood]. 1536 66

Surgical treatment is the procedure of choice for morbidly obese patients. Gastric bypass with a long limb Roux-en-Y anastomosis is the "gold standard" technique for these patients. We sought to determine the early and late results of open gastric bypass with resection of the distal excluded stomach in patients with morbid obesity. We included in this prospective study 400 patients who were seen from September 1999 through August 2003 (311 women and 89 men; mean age, 38.5 years). The mean body mass index of the patients was 46 kg/m2. All underwent 95% distal gastrectomy, with resection of the bypassed stomach, leaving a small gastric pouch of 15 to 20 ml. An end-to-side gastrojejunostomy was performed with circular stapler No. 25. The length of the Roux-en-Y loop was 125 to 150 cm. In all patients, a biopsy was taken from the liver and routine cholecystectomy was performed. Follow-up was as long as 36 months. A barium study was performed in all patients at 5 days after surgery. Mortality and postoperative morbidity rates were 0.5% and 4.75%, respectively, mainly due to anastomotic leak in 10 patients (2.5%). Hospital length of stay was 7 days for 95% of the patients. Follow-up data for longer than 12 months were available in 184 patients. There was excess body weight loss of 70% at 24 and 36 months, and there was an inverse correlation among preoperative body mass index and the loss of weight. Anemia was present in 10%, and incisional hernia was present in 10.2%. At 1 year after surgery, the BAROS index demonstrated very good or excellent index in 96.6% of the patients. Gastric bypass with resection of the distal excluded segment has results very similar to those of gastric bypass alone but eliminates the potential risks of gastric bypass such as anastomotic ulcer, gastrogastric fistula, postoperative bleeding due to peptic ulcer and gastritis, and the eventual future development of gastric cancer. It is also possible to perform via laparoscopy, as we started to do recently.
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PMID:Results of gastric bypass plus resection of the distal excluded gastric segment in patients with morbid obesity. 1562 53

We present the clinical case of a 54 years old man who accessed for dyspnea and severe anemia. After being transfused, he underwent to gastroscopy, which showed an erosive gastritis with large hiatal hernia. The hernia was surgically reduced with laparoscopic hiatoplastic and Nissen-Rossetti fundoplication. In conclusion, dyspnea is not merely a medical competence but also a surgical one.
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PMID:[Impaired lung function and anemia from large hiatal hernia: a case report]. 2374 84

In gastrointestinal system gangrene commonly involves intestines. Involvement of stomach is a rare finding. Herein we describe a case of gastric gangrene secondary to herniation of stomach through an iatrogenic defect. Gangrene of the stomach is a rare and a catastrophic occurrence as stomach is a highly vascularised organ. Gastric gangrene could be secondary to atherosclerosis, arterial embolism, iatrogenic gelfoam embolism, venous thrombosis, gastric volvulus, bulimia nervosa, endoscopic haemostatic injections, diaphragmatic hernia and infectious gastritis. Most reported cases have occurred due to gastric volvulus (Amin El-Gohary and Etiaby, Paedr Surg Intl 9:486-488, 1994; Al-Salem, Pediatr Radiol 30(12):842-5, 2000). Few cases have been reported as complicated hernias either a Bochdalek hernia (Ghanem, Chankun, Brooks, BJS V74(9):779, 2005) or as peristomal hernias which initially lead to gastric outlet obstruction (Ellingson, Maki, Kozarek, Patterson, J Clin Gastroenterol 17(4):314-6, 1993).
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PMID:Gastric gangrene "an iatrogenic misadventure". 2429 11

BACKGROUND The upper stomach can be involved in 1 type of esophageal hiatal hernia in which the degree of stomach insertion is considerable and accompanied by a twist in the shaft of the stomach. The diagnostic accuracy of upper endoscopy or barium meal examination decreases in patients with upside-down stomach, thus making diagnosis of stomach lesions very difficult. No previous reports have described scirrhous gastric cancer in a patient with upside-down stomach. CASE REPORT An 85-year-old woman presented with loss of appetite and vomiting after eating oxalic acid-containing food 2 months previously. Computed tomography revealed an upside-down stomach, and upper endoscopy revealed loss of distensibility and superficial gastritis of the entire stomach. Upside-down stomach was diagnosed; accordingly, laparoscopic hernia repair was planned. Laparoscopic exploration revealed retention of serous fluid (i.e., ascites) containing gastric carcinoma cells (pathologically identified intraoperatively) and induration of the entire stomach. After converting to laparotomy, induration of the stomach was confirmed, continuing to the adjacent 4 cm of the distal esophagus. The patient was diagnosed with scirrhous gastric cancer. Esophageal hiatus hernia repair was performed due to the patient's age and the risks associated with esophagojejunostomy. Preoperative complaints of symptoms disappeared. The patient was transferred to the medical hospital on postoperative day 52 with no complications. CONCLUSIONS Specific symptoms of gastric cancer can mimic those of esophageal hiatal hernia in patients with hernia. In cases of upside-down stomach with loss of distensibility and increased wall thickness, physicians should be aware of the possibility of scirrhous gastric cancer.
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PMID:Difficult Diagnosis and Surgical Procedure for Scirrhous Gastric Cancer Complicated by Upside-Down Stomach: A Case Report. 3297 80


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