Gastric volvulus due to paraesophageal hernia: A case report
Birkan Bozkurt1, Ersin Gürkan Dumlu1, Gülten Kıyak1, Alper Bilal Özkardeş1, Mehmet Kılıç2
1Department Of General Surgery, Ataturk Research And Training Hospital, Ankara,turkey
2Department Of General Surgery, Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey
Keywords: Vomiting, hiatal hernia, gastric volvulus
Abstract
Gastric volvulus is a rare and life-threatening disease. Treatment requires emergency surgery. In this article, an 85 year-old female patient who came in to our emergency room with epigastric abdominal pain, nausea and intractable vomiting is presented with current literature. The patient was diagnosed with gastric volvulus due to paraoesaphagial hernia, an emergency laparoscopic surgery was performed and was discharged on post -operative day 4 without any complications.
Gastric volvulus is presented with non-specific abdominal symptoms and diagnosis may be delayed or skipped. Chest x-ray and radiological imaging techniques such as computed tomography is helpful in diagnosis. Emergency laparoscopic surgery is the gold standard of treatment.