Gastric tube-pericardial fistula: a remote complication of esophageal replacement for long gap esophageal atresia

Alejandro R Ruiz-Elizalde; Mary Jo Haley; Jason C Fisher; Jason S Frischer; Jeffrey L Zitsman

doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.02.010

Gastric tube-pericardial fistula: a remote complication of esophageal replacement for long gap esophageal atresia

J Pediatr Surg. 2009 Jul;44(7):1440-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.02.010.

Authors

Alejandro R Ruiz-Elizalde¹, Mary Jo Haley, Jason C Fisher, Jason S Frischer, Jeffrey L Zitsman

Affiliation

¹ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 19573675
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.02.010

Abstract

Several short and long-term complications of esophageal replacement have been described in the literature. We report the case of a gastric tube-pericardial fistula occurring 20 years after initial repair of long gap esophageal atresia with a reversed gastric tube.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Enteral Nutrition / adverse effects*
Enteral Nutrition / instrumentation
Esophageal Atresia / therapy*
Esophagoscopy
Fistula / diagnosis
Fistula / etiology*
Fistula / surgery
Follow-Up Studies
Heart Diseases / diagnosis
Heart Diseases / etiology*
Heart Diseases / surgery
Humans
Male
Pericardium*
Thoracotomy / methods*
Time Factors
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Young Adult