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Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas

versión impresa ISSN 1130-0108

Rev. esp. enferm. dig. vol.103 no.8 Madrid ago. 2011

https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1130-01082011000800008 

PICTURES IN DIGESTIVE PATHOLOGY

 

Small bowel obstruction after ERCP

Obstrucción intestinal completa tras CPRE

 

 

M.a Antonia Montenegro1, José Ignacio Blanco2, Miguel Toledano3, Javier Sánchez3, Juan Carlos Martín3 and Manuel Pérez-Miranda4

1Department of General Surgery A. Hospital Clínico Universitario. Valladolid, Spain.
2Department of General Surgery. Hospital Universitario Río Hortega. Valladolid, Spain.
3Department of General Surgery. Hospital Medina del Campo. Valladolid, Spain.
4Department of Digestive Diseases. Hospital Universitario Río Hortega. Valladolid, Spain

 

 

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with endoscopic sphincterotomy is the treatment of choice for common bile duct (CBD) stones. The complication rate is 5-10% with a mortality rate between 0.5-1.0%.

Post-ERCP complications are usually apparent within three days of the procedure, and rarely present after the 12th day. Pancreatitis and bleeding are the most common complication. Gallstone ileus after ERCP with CBD removal is exceedingly rare.

 

Case report

A 66 years old male was admitted for cholangitis with obstructive jaundice. Transabdominal US showed cholelithiasis with a 20 mm CBD compatible with choledocholithiasis. He had a history of bilateral inguinal hernia repair, appendectomy and pyloroplasty.

At ERCP a prior small sphincterotomy was enlarged, the papilla was balloon dilated, and all 12 stones found (largest diameter, 25 mm) were removed from the CBD.

After ERCP the patient had bilious vomiting with dilated small bowel loops on abdominal X ray and aerobilia (Figs. 1 and 2). Abdominal CT on day 10 showed a dilated stomach and jejunal loops, with a stone lodged inside the lumen at the terminal ileum (Fig. 3). Emergent laparoscopic surgery was undertaken, where adhesions were found in the left inguinal area, with dilated and torqued small bowel loops. The adhesions were cut, freeing the bowel loop, and cholecystectomy was carried out.

Discussion

Prolonged ERCP with insufflation estimated at over 6 liters of room air in the setting of prior adhesions, triggered in this case small bowel obstruction. This unusual complication has not been reported before. Use of carbon dioxide instead of room air, as it is done in laparoscopy, may prevent this complication in the future.

 

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