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Cureus
December 2024
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville, Gainesville, USA.
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is a common surgical treatment for morbid obesity, but rare complications involving the excluded gastric remnant can pose significant challenges. A 65-year-old female with a history of RYGB presented with sudden onset of left upper quadrant abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, and loss of appetite. Laboratory tests revealed leukocytosis.
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January 2025
Department of General Surgery, Nujiang Prefecture People's Hospital, Yunnan, Nujiang, China.
Rationale: Peritoneal mucinous cystadenoma is rare in the clinic, lacks specific clinical manifestations, tumor markers, and imaging features, and is easily misdiagnosed and missed. Clinical practitioners should maintain a high level of vigilance. Here, we report a case of laparoscopic peritoneal mucinous cystadenoma stripping to improve our understanding of the disease.
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January 2025
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of California - Irvine, Irvine, California.
Carbon dioxide gas emboli is a potentially fatal complication that occurs more frequently during laparoscopic hepatectomy compared to other laparoscopic surgeries. The patient featured in this report had massive gas embolism confirmed by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) that were associated with episodes of severe hypoxemia, hemodynamic instability, and right ventricular failure requiring conversion to open hepatectomy. Abrupt abdominal decompression resulted in massive hemorrhage from a previously undetected defect in the middle hepatic vein.
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November 2024
Department of Neonatology, AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
Ogilvie syndrome, also known as acute colonic pseudo-obstruction, is a form of colonic dilation occurring without underlying mechanical or anatomic etiology. It is a disorder of imbalance in motor innervation of the large intestine, which causes acute colon obstruction in the absence of any physical obstruction. It is associated with high morbidity and mortality due to diagnostic dilemmas and the need for surgical intervention.
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December 2024
Department of Cardiology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, USA.
Acute colonic pseudo-obstruction (ACPO), or Ogilvie syndrome, is a rare condition marked by significant colon distention without mechanical obstruction. Symptoms include abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, vomiting, and an inability to pass gas or stool. Although common in males over 60, we report a challenging case of a 44-year-old man from Africa with recurrent abdominal distention and discomfort.
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