An instant rare complication: a fractured metallic pyloric stent.
Metallic pyloric stenting (also termed as metallic enteral stenting) performed endoscopically, stands as first-line treatment for malignant gastric outlet obstruction. With reported evidence, these self-expandable metallic stents (SEMS) re-enable oral food intake, preventing patients having to face invasive techniques such as surgical gastroenterostomy. We report a patient having received a covered pyloric SEMS insertion following a tumour growth causing stenosis in the gastric antropyloric region. After 3 weeks, the patient presented with a fracture of the pyloric SEMS, a rare complication, resulting in a second pyloric SEMS insertion.
Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK. mahvesh.r.javaid@gmail.com
Mahvesh Rana
MR
Javaid
Aasim Mohammad
AM
Yusuf
D000328:Adult; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal; D017219:Gastric Outlet Obstruction / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D011707:Pyloric Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D012086:Reoperation / Q000379:methods*; D015607:Stents; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000150:complications