362459

Gastrobronchial fistula: A rare complication after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and its endoscopic management.

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Upper GI Endoscopy

Abstract

Background: Bariatric surgery is considered the standard of care for morbid obese patients who failed conservative management. However, it's not free of complications. Gastrobronchial fistula (GBF) is one of complications that could be happened during the post-operative course that could be successfully managed either surgically or endoscopically. Case presentation: We present a case of 45 years old morbid obese female patient underwent gastric bypass surgery that was early complicated by gastric leakage that was managed endoscopically with OVESCO clipping. 6 years later, the patient presented with chest infection with coughing of food that was proved to be associated with gastrobronchial fistula. We applied OVESCO clips and closed the fistula and dilate the gastrojejunostomy due to very narrow gastrojejunostomy using a balloon 20 to 30 mm and dilatation was done several times. After that repeated the barium meal showed that the fistula was successfully closed. Conclusion: Gastrobronchial fistula is one of rare reported complications following bariatric surgery that could be successfully managed endoscopically through different strategies in a highly effective therapeutic option that help in shortening of the leakage healing time.

DOI

10.21608/gg.2024.251022.1022

Keywords

Keywords: Bariatric surgery, Gastrobronchial fistula, Endoscopic Management

Authors

First Name

Abeer

Last Name

Abdel-latif

MiddleName

Awad

Affiliation

Internal Medicine department, Hepatogastroenterology unit, Kasr Al-Ainy school of medicine, Cairo university, Cairo, Egypt.

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beero4a@yahoo.com

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0000-0001-9945-9767

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Elgawish

MiddleName

Abdelhamid

Affiliation

Department of gastroenterology and hepatology, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.

Email

mahmoud.elgawish@yahoo.com

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Elsefy

MiddleName

Metawea

Affiliation

Department of gastroenterology and hepatology, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.

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ahmedmetawea86@gmail.com

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First Name

Mazen

Last Name

Naga

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-

Affiliation

: Department of Internal Medicine, Hepatogastroenterology Unit, Kasr Al-Ainy School of medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

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mimnaga@yahoo.com

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2

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1

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48684

Issue Date

2024-06-01

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2023-11-24

Publish Date

2024-06-01

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2974-4245

Online ISSN

2974-4253

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https://gg.journals.ekb.eg/article_362459.html

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362,459

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2,694

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Publication Title

Global Gastroenterology

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https://gg.journals.ekb.eg/

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Gastrobronchial fistula: A rare complication after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and its endoscopic management.

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Created At

18 Dec 2024