Laparoscopic reduction of acute gastric volvulus.
Koger KE, Stone JM.
Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, California.
The traditional surgical treatment of gastric volvulus involves upper abdominal laparotomy with gastric detorsion, fixation, and, when present, repair of associated diaphragmatic hernia. We describe a case of organoaxial gastric volvulus associated with a paraesophageal hernia in a poor risk patient, which was successfully treated with laparoscopic detorsion and percutaneous endoscopic gastropexy. This approach avoided the morbidity of a laparotomy and allowed the rapid recovery of gastric function.
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PMID: 8489104 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]