A Patency Capsule Remained Intact in the Colon over 210 Hours.
We present an unusual case of a 35-year-old male patient whom a patency capsule stayed in his gut without breaking. He has a history of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome and multiple abdominal surgeries. Prestudy was performed for abdominal searching, but a patency capsule remained in the colon over 9 days. He displayed neither abdominal nor obstructive symptoms in that period. We collected the patency capsule using colonoscopy after dilating a postoperative stricture at an anastomotic site of the rectum. Clinicians should bear in mind that patency capsules may become retained as distally as the colon in patients with a surgical history of the large intestine.
Department of Gastroenterology, Iida Municipal Hospital, Iida, Japan; Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
Yu
Y
Hihara
Department of Gastroenterology, Iida Municipal Hospital, Iida, Japan; Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
Satoru
0000-0002-6364-9654
S
Joshita
Department of Gastroenterology, Iida Municipal Hospital, Iida, Japan.
Toshiharu
T
Takahashi
Department of Gastroenterology, Iida Municipal Hospital, Iida, Japan.
Shinji
S
Okaniwa
Department of Surgery, Iida Municipal Hospital, Iida, Japan.
Yoshiki
Y
Mizukami
Department of Gastroenterology, Iida Municipal Hospital, Iida, Japan.
Yoshiyuki
Y
Nakamura