Chávez-Velarde OE, Hernández-Ramírez DA, Martínez-Gen R, Gómez-Jiménez LM

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 553-556
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ABSTRACT

Background: gastroduodenal involvement in Crohn´s disease (CD) is relatively rare (0.5-13 %) and occasionally causes pyloric stenosis, for which medical therapy may be ineffective and surgery may be required. With more frequent use of upper endoscopy, however, upper gastrointestinal involvement has been found to be more common than previously suspected. About one third of the patients with symptomatic gastroduodenal CD undergo surgery, most of them for obstruction. Gastroenterostomy with vagotomy is the surgical treatment of choice. Resection, strictureplasty or balloon dilatation maybe performed in selected patients.
Clinical case: we report a 50-year-old woman patient with recurrent vomiting especially after eating and epigastric discomfort with dyspepsia, abdominal pain, with initially misdiagnosed pyloric CD that three years later developed colonic stenosis.
Conclusions: clinics should be aware of the possibility that in young and middle aged adults such upper gastrointestinal symptoms as epigastric discomfort, vomiting and weight loss may occur as a initial manifestation of CD or as an extension of the disease.

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