Health & Medical surgery

Blind loop: Rare but Important Surgical Complication

Blind loop: Rare but Important Surgical Complication

Conclusions


This is an exceedingly rare type of enterocutaneous fistula with a paucity of literature available for review. It may be beneficial to add blind bowel loop to our differential when encountering a patient with a low output, non-bilious draining fistula, especially when it follows previous bowel surgery.

Consent


Consent was obtained from both our patient and his wife during admission and then confirmed prior to discharge and once again at follow up where he provided us with a CD with his previous CT scan images. He was excited to allow us to share his story and clinical image in an attempt to educate and enlighten the medical community on a rare clinical diagnosis.

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