Gastric Volvulus and Wandering Spleen: A Rare Surgical Emergency | Zendy

Georgios D. Lianos | Zendy; Konstantinos Vlachos | Zendy; Nikolaos A. Papakonstantinou | Zendy; Christos Katsios | Zendy; Georgios Baltogiannis | Zendy; Dimitrios Godevenos | Zendy

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Gastric Volvulus and Wandering Spleen: A Rare Surgical Emergency

Author(s) -

Georgios D. Lianos,

Konstantinos Vlachos,

Nikolaos A. Papakonstantinou,

Christos Katsios,

Georgios Baltogiannis,

Dimitrios Godevenos

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

case reports in surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2090-6900

pISSN - 2090-6919

DOI - 10.1155/2013/561752

Subject(s) - wandering spleen , retching , medicine , gastric volvulus , volvulus , surgery , vomiting , stomach , differential diagnosis , general surgery , surgical emergency , rare disease , spleen , splenectomy , gastroenterology , disease , pathology

Gastric volvulus is a rare but potentially life-threatening clinical entity due to possible gastric necrosis. A wandering spleen may also be associated with gastric volvulus. Patients presenting with the triad epigastralgia, vomiting followed by retching, and difficulty or inability to pass a nasogastric tube into the stomach are likely to have gastric volvulus. The operating surgeon should include this rare entity in the differential diagnosis when dealing with a patient with such a clinical profile. Herein, we present a case of gastric volvulus associated with a wandering spleen in a 28-year-old Caucasian woman and we provide a brief review of the literature on this issue.

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