Case Report	Incidental Gastric Diverticulum in an Elderly Male with Chronic Dyspepsia Kronik Dispepsili Yaşlı Erkek Hastada İnsidental Saptanan Gastrik Divertikül Abdirahman ALASSO^1[ID], Najib WEHLIE^1[ID], Mehmet TAHTABAŞI^2[ID], *Sadettin ER^1[ID] Abstract Gastric diverticula are usually asymptomatic. When symptoms surface, they are mostly upper abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting, while dyspepsia is less common. In this case, there was determined as an incidental of gastric diverticula that was managed by medical treatment. 70-year-old male came to our clinic complaining chronic epigastric pain and dyspepsia, with no known co-morbidities. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy and tomography were performed at diagnosis. Medical treatment (proton pump inhibitor) was started and followed because the gastric diverticulum was 2 cm below. The patient is still under follow-up and has no clinical findings. Keywords: Gastric diverticula, Elderly male. Özet Gastrik divertiküller genellikle asemptomatiktir. Semptomlar ortaya çıktığında, çoğunlukla üst karın ağrısı, bulantı ve kusma olurken, dispepsi daha az görülür. Bu olguda da tıbbi tedavi ile yönetilen bir gastrik divertikül insidental olarak saptanmıştır. 70 yaşında erkek hasta bilinen bir morbiditesi olmayan kronik epigastrik ağrı ve dispepsi şikayeti ile kliniğimize başvurdu. Tanıda, özofagogastroduodenoskopi ve tomografi yapıldı. Gastrik divertikül, 2 cm altında olduğundan medikal tedaviye (proton pompa inhibitörü) başlandı ve takip edildi. Hasta halen takip edilmekte ve klinik bulgusu da bulunmamaktadır. Anahtar kelimeler: Gastrik divertikül, Yaşlı erkek. Figure 1. Diverticulum seen in gastric fundus in gastroscopy. Figure 1 png Şekil 1. Gastroskopide mide fundusunda görülen divertikül. Şekil 1 png Figure 2. Computed tomography showed an exophytic diverticulum extending from the stomach fundus (yellow arrow). Figure 2 png Şekil 2. Bilgisayarlı tomografide mide fundusundan uzanan ekzofitik divertikül (sarı ok). Şekil 2 png
DOI: 10.54584/lms.2022.6
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^1Department of General Surgery, Mogadishu Somalia-Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia. ^2Department of Radiology, Mogadishu Somalia-Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia.
*Corresponding author Sadettin Er; MD, Department of General Surgery, Mogadishu Somalia-Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia. E-mail: ersadettin74@gmail.com
Received: 06.01.2020 Accepted: 20.01.2020 Published: 20.01.2020
Cite as: Alasso A, Wehlie N, Tahtabaşı M, Er S. Incidental Gastric Diverticulum in an Elderly Male with Chronic Dyspepsia. Life Med Sci 2022; 1(1): 30-32.
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