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Stent migration: Stent may move causing symptoms to recur or lead to other complications. Stent obstruction: Blockage can occur, repeating symptoms or other complications. Stent related pain: Chest or throat pain may occur after the procedure; requiring additional treatment or adjustment of the stent. Stent removal: Check with your doctor on ...
General surgery, vascular surgery, gastroenterology: Symptoms: Acute: sudden severe pain [1] Chronic: abdominal pain after eating, unintentional weight loss, vomiting [2] [1] Usual onset > 60 years old [3] Types: Acute, chronic [1] Risk factors
Nonbilious vomiting, nausea, and abrupt onset stomach pain in the right upper quadrant are common symptoms in patients with acute afferent loop syndrome. Abdominal distension and postprandial epigastric discomfort lasting anywhere from a few minutes to an hour are common symptoms experienced by patients with chronic afferent loop syndrome.
Abdominal pain. Shortness of breath. Fatigue. Pressure or heaviness in your chest. Sweating. Nausea or vomiting. Dizziness. Pain caused by a heart attack usually persists for more than 20 minutes ...
Cystogastrostomy is a surgery to create an opening between a pancreatic pseudocyst and the stomach when the cyst is in a suitable position to be drained into the stomach. [1] This conserves pancreatic juices that would otherwise be lost. [2] This surgery is performed by a pancreatic surgeon to avoid a life-threatening rupture of the pancreatic ...
Surgery is the best possible option and can be considered if the cancer is diagnosed at a stage where it can be completely removed by surgery. If the jaundice is very high, the surgeon may choose to decrease jaundice before surgery by doing a procedure called endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and stenting.
Insertion of a stent through the major duodenal papilla and ampulla of Vater into the common bile duct and/or the pancreatic duct; Dilation of strictures (e.g. primary sclerosing cholangitis, anastomotic strictures after liver transplantation) [5] Extraction of liver flukes from the biliary system (e.g., opisthorchiasis, clonorchiasis, fasciolosis)
Months later, in June, Rhinehart was rushed to the emergency room after he complained of severe abdominal pain. Arteries in his esophagus had burst — a complication of advanced liver failure ...