08 January 2019 : Case report
Gastrobronchial Fistula Following a Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy
Unusual clinical course, Diagnostic / therapeutic accidents, Management of emergency care
Christian Saliba1ABCDEF, Gregory Nicolas12ABDE*, Samer Diab1BCEG, Ihab Joudi1ACFG, Claude Tayar1ACDFGDOI: 10.12659/AJCR.910596
Am J Case Rep 2019; 20:31-35
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Bariatric operations have been gaining more ground over the past decade. The most commonly used bariatric operation is the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. A complication of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is gastric leak; which can rarely cause a primary subphrenic abscess and a secondary diaphragm rupture that will lead eventually to a gastrobronchial fistula.
CASE REPORT: We present the case of a 32-year-old patient who started having symptoms suggestive of gastrobronchial fistula at 2 months following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.
CONCLUSIONS: The treatment of a gastrobronchial fistula is controversial as this complication is rarely covered in published studies. Our expert opinion for this patient case was to opt for a surgical approach seeing that the complexity and severity of the fistula had a low chance of subsiding after only conservative measures.
Keywords: Bariatric Surgery, Digestive System Fistula, general surgery, Bronchial Fistula, Cough, Dyspnea, Gastrectomy, Gastric Fistula, Laparoscopy
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