[Chronic diarrhea as late complication of partial gastrectomy]

Acta Med Port. 2000 Sep-Dec;13(5-6):319-23.
[Article in Portuguese]

Abstract

The authors present a clinical case of a forty-nine-year-old man admitted to hospital because of a seven month history of diarrhoea. The patient had been submitted to partial gastrectomy twenty-two years ago due to peptic ulcer. The analytic study was compatible with malabsorption syndrome. The colonoscopic and radiological studies revealed the existence of two fistulas between the gastric-stump, the small intestine and the colon. The patient was submitted to surgery with resection of the fistulas and re-gastrectomy with trunk vagotomy and Roux-en-Y reanastomosis. The follow-up twelve months after surgery showed an asymptomatic subject with weight recovery who had resumed his professional activities without limitations.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anastomosis, Roux-en-Y
  • Chronic Disease
  • Diarrhea / etiology*
  • Edema / etiology
  • Gastrectomy / adverse effects*
  • Gastrectomy / methods
  • Gastric Fistula / diagnostic imaging
  • Gastric Fistula / surgery
  • Humans
  • Intestinal Fistula / diagnostic imaging
  • Intestinal Fistula / surgery
  • Jejunal Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Jejunal Diseases / surgery
  • Leg
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Radiography
  • Reoperation
  • Stomach Ulcer / surgery
  • Time Factors
  • Vagotomy