Late Intestinal Obstruction due to an Intestinal Volvulus in a Pregnant Patient with a Previous Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass |
| |
Authors: | Anajara Gazzalle Débora Braun Leandro Totti Cavazzola Luiz Roberto Wendt Daniel Navarini Marcelo de Azevedo Fauri Santo Pascual Vitola |
| |
Affiliation: | (1) General Surgery Service, Hospital de Cl?nicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil;(2) Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil;(3) Av Montenegro 163 apt 802 Bairro Petr?polis, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, CEP 90460160; |
| |
Abstract: | This is a case of a 33 weeks pregnant woman, presented 2 years after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, with abdominal pain for 2 days. A laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed 1 day earlier in another hospital, without improving the pain. She presented at our hospital with acute abdominal pain and clinical signs of intestinal obstruction, undergoing an exploratory laparotomy that revealed a volvulus and necrosis of the jejunum from the gastroenteroanastomosis through the lateral enteroenterostomy, which was resected with the reconstruction of the Roux-en-Y limb performed at the same operation. Patient and neonate presented with improvement after surgery and the patient was discharged on postoperative day 15. Internal hernias after bariatric surgery have been reported as the cause of acute abdomen problems during pregnancy, which may progress to necrosis and perforation. The delay of surgical intervention could have brought a tragic outcome for mother and neonate. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|