A case of gastropericardial fistula of a gastric tube after esophagectomy: a case report and review

Kato, Takehito; Mori, Takahiro; Niibori, Koki

doi:10.1186/1749-7922-5-20

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Table 2 Reported cases of gastropericardial fistula of gastric tube ulcer since 1984, quoted and partially modified from a report by Shibutani et al.

From: A case of gastropericardial fistula of a gastric tube after esophagectomy: a case report and review

		Patient		Time between
Case	Report year	Age	Sex	surgery and onset	Reconstruction route	Primary symptom	Initial treatment	Modality for therapy	Outcome	Reference
1	1984	46	Male	2 years 5 months	Retrosternal	Shock	Surgery	Conservative	Death	C. P.* [14]
2	1989	58	Male	3 years	Retrosternal	Chest pain, tachycardia	Internal medicine	Not described	Death	C. P.* [15]
3	1991	67	Male	3 months	Retrosternal	Precordial pain	Surgery	Conservative	Death	ref. [1]
4	1993	66	Male	9 years	Retrosternal	Chest pain	Internal medicine	Conservative	Death	C. P.* [16]
5	1993	57	Female	4 years	Intra-thoracic	Retrosternal pain	Internal medicine	Not described	Death	C. P.* [17]
6	1996	66	Male	1 year 9 months	Posterior mediastinal	Chest pain	Surgery	Conservative	Rescued	[18]
7	1997	74	Male	8 years	Retrosternal	Precordial pain	Surgery	Surgical drainage (left thoracotomy)	Rescued	[19]
8	1998	62	Male	2 months	Retrosternal	Shock	Surgery	Conservative	Death	[20]
9	1998	N/A		2 years	Retrosternal	Shock	Surgery	Surgical drainage (left thoracotomy → right thoracotomy)	Death	C. P.* [21]
10	1999	56	Male	2 years 5 months	Retrosternal	Precordial pain	Internal medicine	Surgical drainage, partial resection of gastric tube	Rescued	C. P.* [22]
11	1999	51	Male	10 months	Retrosternal	Chest pain, back pain	Surgery	Percutaneous drainage	Not described	C. P.* [23]
12	1999	68	Male	1 year 4 months	Retrosternal	Anorexia, general fatigue	Surgery	Percutaneous drainage surgical closure, partial resection of pericardium	Rescued	C. P.* [24]
13	1999	69	Male	1 year 5 months	Retrosternal	Hematemesis	Surgery	Conservative	Rescued	C. P.* [25]
14	2000	54	Male	3 years	Retrosternal	Chest pain, dyspnea	General practitioner-surgery	Percutaneous drainage	Not described	C. P.* [26]
15	2000	67	Male	5 years	Retrosternal	Precordial pain	General practitioner	Percutaneous drainage	Death	[27]
16	2000	56	Male	7 months	Retrosternal	Chest pain, shock	Surgery	Conservative	Death	C. P.* [28]
17	2003	53	Male	4 years 2 months	Retrosternal	Not described	Not described	Surgical drainage (thoracotomy), partial resection of gastric tube	Rescued	C. P.* [29]
18	2003	77	Male	4 years	Retrosternal	General fatigue	Surgery	Percutaneous drainage	Death	C. P.* [30]
19	2003	65	Male	6 months	Retrosternal	Anorexia	Surgery	Conservative	Death	[31]
20	2004	66	Male	Not described	Not described	Chest pain	Surgery	Drainage	Death	C. P.* [32]
21	2006	68	Male	2 years 6 months	Retrosternal	Chest discomfort, odynophagia	Cardiology	Drainage gastric tube resection, pericardium resection	Death	C. P.* [33]
22	2006	64	Female	5 years	Retrosternal	Chest pain	General practitioner	Surgical drainage (left thoracotomy), TachoComb^® sheets	Rescued	C. P.* [34]
23	2007	72	Male	4 years	Retrosternal	Chest discomfort	Cardiology	Conservative	Death	[35]
24	2008	66	Male	5 years	Retrosternal	General fatigue	Surgery	Percutaneous drainage	Rescued	[36]
25	2008	60	Male	5 years	Retrosternal	Omalgia, fever	Surgery	Surgical drainage (left thoracotomy), muscle flap plombage	Rescued	C. P.* [37]
26	2008	59	Male	12 years	Posterior mediastinal	Precordial pain	General practitionersurgery	Surgical drainage	Rescued	C. P.* [38]
27	2009	46	Female	1 year 1 months	Retrosternal	Chest pain, dyspnea	Surgery	Surgical drainage	Rescued	C. P.* [39]
28	2010	62	Male	8 years	Retrosternal	Left omalgia, melena	Internal medicine	Conservative	Rescued	[5]
29	2010	65	Male	10 years	Retrosternal	Chest pain	Cardiology	Surgical drainage, muscle flap plombage	Rescued	Current case

*C.P. = Domestic conference proceedings reported in Japanese.

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