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Signs Volvulus of the stomach - an unusual cause of pulsus
A 48 year old man was referred to the Cardio-Thoracic Unit with a provisional diagnosis of an acute aortic dissection. He gave a history of sudden onset of severe upper abdominal pain radiating to the left shoulder, and had vomited twice. On initial questioning there was no history oftrauma, recent or remote, but he had undergone vagotomy and pyloroplasty 12 years previously for duodenal ulcer....
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A patient with a strangulated diaphragmatic hernia presented as an emergency and was noted to have pulsus paradoxus. The mechanism of this physical sign, previously unrecorded in association with an intrathoracic hernia, is discussed.
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A case of acute gastric volvulus associated with eventration of the diaphragm in a previously well 6 year old child is reported. The child presented with acute abdominal pain, abdominal distension and vomiting. At operation, mesentero-axial type gastric volvulus was found, associated with laxity of the gastro-splenic, gastrohepatic and gastrocolic ligaments and eventration of the left hemidiaph...
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Gastric volvulus occurs when the stomach rotates about its longitudinal axis (organo-axial volvulus), or about an axis joining the lesser and greater curvatures (mesentero-axial volvulus). Primary gastric volvulus, making up one third of cases, occurs when the stabilizing ligaments are too lax as a result of congenital or acquired causes. Secondary gastric volvulus, making up the remainder of c...
متن کاملOptions in the treatment of totally intrathoracic stomach with volvulus.
Gastric volvulus is a rare life-threatening condition resulting from rotation of the stomach by 180 degrees. We describe two patients with unusual chronic totally intrathoracic gastric volvulus that were treated by different laparoscopic techniques. Preoperatively, upper gastrointestinal contrast studies are diagnostic and, gastroscopy is helpful. Rapid progress in laparoscopy has shifted treat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1955
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591575504800920