Showing posts with label esophageal dilatation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label esophageal dilatation. Show all posts

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Corrosive injury with gastric outlet obstruction

This was a 25 year old lady who had ingested bathroom cleaner (alkali) with a suicidal intent. Barium studies showed a long esophageal stricture (A1) and gastric outlet obstruction (A2: green arrow). On endoscopy we couldn't get far due to the extensive damage (B) and used Savary dilators (C: green arrow) to dilate the esophagus. There was extensive damage in the fundus (D), body and antrum (E: green arrow marks the wide open pylorus). The duodenal bulb was scarred and tubular (F:green arrow) with a pinhole narrowing between the bulb and descending duodenum (G: green arrows). She's definitely going to need surgery for that outlet obstruction.

Second (actually 3rd) ERCP for post transplant biliary leak

This 60 year old gentleman had earlier undergone ERCP and stenting for an anastomotic biliary leakage a few months earlier http://ercp365.bl...