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- Title
Late Gastropleural Fistula after the Management of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Leakage.
- Authors
Sobhani, Zahra; Moein Vaziri, Nader; Hosseini, Babak; Amini, Masood; Setoodeh, Maryam; Karimi, Ali
- Abstract
One of the rare but serious complications of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) with significant morbidity and mortality is gastropleural fistula (GPF). Here, we present a 34-year-old woman who underwent LSG. Due to leakage in the proximal site of the stapler line and splenic artery erosion into the site of leakage after 1 month, splenectomy and drainage catheter insertion was done. Three months later, she presented with dyspnea, fever, and lung abscess, GPF was diagnosed, and Roux-en-Y fistulo-jejunostomy was done. After 10 days, her clinical condition improved, but the patient expired due to hemorrhagic cerebrovascular accident (CVA). Therefore, GPF along with other common complications should be seriously considered in patients developing post-LSG chronic respiratory symptoms.
- Subjects
SLEEVE gastrectomy; FISTULA; SPLENIC artery; LEAKAGE; STROKE
- Publication
Obesity Surgery, 2020, Vol 30, Issue 9, p3620
- ISSN
0960-8923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11695-020-04604-2