Intestinal Barotrauma in a SCUBA Diver - Mechanical Small Bowel Obstruction after Strangulation of the Last Ileal Loop Between a Mobile Caecum and a Long Sigmoid Loop

Swiss Surgery ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haller ◽  
Guenot ◽  
Azagury ◽  
Rosso

Quelques heures après une plongée sous-marine à 30 mètres de profondeur, un homme de 49 ans a présenté des douleurs abdominales diffuses avec des nausées et des vomissements. Une laparotomie a été pratiquée à 36 heures d'évolution d'un traitement conservateur en raison d'un iléus mécanique du grêle persistant. Elle a montré une incarcération du grêle distal entre un caecum mobile et une longue boucle sigmoïdienne chez ce patient sans antécédents chirurgicaux. Compte tenu de l'absence de souffrance intestinale, seule une caecopexie a été pratiquée et l'évolution post-opératoire a été simple. La distension des gaz intestinaux pendant la remontée suivant la loi de Boyle-Mariotte et leur répartition a provoqué chez ce patient avec une anatomie particulière un iléus mécanique du grêle. Le traitement du caecum mobile et la littérature des barotraumatismes abdominaux en plongée sous-marine ont été revus.

The Physician ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Chaitra Naik Khanna ◽  
Paul Richard Harris ◽  
Gemma Faulkner

Meckel’s diverticulitis is an extremely rare cause of acute abdomen during pregnancy. Depending on the clinical presentation it can be managed either by laparoscopy or laparotomy. We report the case of a 29-year-old pregnant female, presenting with abdominal pain and distension in the early second trimester. The abdominal ultrasound was inconclusive. Magnetic resonance imaging showed small bowel obstruction with a dilated ileal loop due to an inflamed Meckel’s diverticulum adherent to the fundus of the gravid uterus was identified during laparotomy. Diverticular resection was carried out with a stapling device. The diagnosis of Meckel’s diverticulitis can be challenging, especially in pregnancy, and a delay in diagnosis can be detrimental to the mother and foetus. Although laparoscopic management has been reported to be safe in the second trimester, in this case, the abdominal distension would have made access challenging and unsafe, and hence the decision to perform a laparotomy was taken. 


2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 571
Author(s):  
Young Cheol Lee ◽  
Young Tong Kim ◽  
Won Kyung Bae ◽  
Il Young Kim

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Muchuweti ◽  
Hopewell Mungani ◽  
Hopewell Mungani ◽  
Farai Mahomva ◽  
Edwin Gamba Muguti ◽  
...  

Oftentimes general surgeons working in poorly resourced communities carry out emergency abdominal surgery in patients with acute abdomen with no definitive preoperative diagnosis. The definitive diagnosis is made at laparotomy. Perforated small bowel obstruction secondary to heavy Infestation with Ascaris Lumbricoides brings a number of intraoperative challenges requiring correct intraoperative surgical management decisions. We present a case of a 17 year-old patient who was admitted with a diagnosis of small bowel obstruction who at laparotomy was found to have perforated gangrenous small bowel volvulus with heavy worm load visible through the bowel wall. Because of faecal peritoneal contamination and haemodynamic instability she underwent a two staged procedure with good outcome.


2019 ◽  
Vol 229 (4) ◽  
pp. S87
Author(s):  
Jose A. Aldana ◽  
Javier E. Rincon ◽  
Ricardo A. Fonseca ◽  
Rohit K. Rasane ◽  
Christina X. Zhang ◽  
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