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- Title
An exceptional postoperative gastric tube bleeding after esophageal resection for cancer.
- Authors
Di Mauro, Davide; Sarli, Leopoldo; Roncoroni, Luigi
- Abstract
A case of gastric tube bleeding after an Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy with gastroesophageal anastomosis is reported. During the early postoperative course, the patient had a gastric tube stasis that improved progressively. The subsequent onset of a serious and intermittent hematemesis, which was endoscopically deemed to be the result of a hemorrhagic gastritis, required multiple blood transfusions. The evolution to a severe hemodynamic instability obliged us to reoperate on the patient. During surgery, a band-related obstruction of the first jejunal loop with local signs of vascular hypertension was noted. As soon as the obstruction was solved, the gastric bleeding stopped. The authors discuss the clinical aspects and physiopathology of the gastric tube bleeding and, in particular, they evaluate the influence of the intestinal obstruction with vascular involvement on the development of this exceptional and severe complication.
- Subjects
HEMORRHAGE; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HEMATEMESIS; BLOOD transfusion; SURGICAL excision
- Publication
Diseases of the Esophagus, 2009, Vol 22, Issue 5, pE11
- ISSN
1120-8694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1442-2050.2008.00892.x