Sato H, Ishida K, Sasaki S, Kojika M, Endo S, Inoue Y, Sasaki A. Regulating migration of esophageal stents - management using a Sengstaken-Blakemore tube: A case report and review of literature. World J Gastroenterol 2018; 24(28): 3192-3197 [PMID: 30065565 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v24.i28.3192]
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Masahiro Kojika, MD, Department of Surgery, Iwate Medical University, School of Medicine, Morioka, Iwate 020-0023, Japan. kojimasa@iwate-med.ac.jp
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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Case Report
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Hisaho Sato, Masahiro Kojika, Shigeatsu Endo, Yoshihiro Inoue, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Iwate Medical University, School of Medicine, Morioka, Iwate 020-0023, Japan
Kaoru Ishida, Shusaku Sasaki, Masahiro Kojika, Akira Sasaki, Department of Surgery, Iwate Medical University, School of Medicine, Morioka, Iwate 020-0023, Japan
Shigeatsu Endo, Morioka Yuai Hospital, Morioka, Iwate 020-0834, Japan
Author contributions: Sato H, Kojika M, Endo S and Inoue Y designed the report; Ishida K, Sasaki S collected the patient’s clinical data; Sato H, Kojika M and Sasaki A wrote the paper.
Informed consent statement: The patients and their families were offered written explanations prior to the start of the treatment, and they provided consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
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Correspondence to: Masahiro Kojika, MD, Department of Surgery, Iwate Medical University, School of Medicine, Morioka, Iwate 020-0023, Japan. kojimasa@iwate-med.ac.jp
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Received: April 19, 2018 Peer-review started: April 19, 2018 First decision: May 30, 2018 Revised: June 17, 2018 Accepted: June 27, 2018 Article in press: June 27, 2018 Published online: July 28, 2018
Abstract
Stent migration, which causes issues in stent therapy for esophageal perforations, can counteract the therapeutic effects and lead to complications. Therefore, techniques to regulate stent migration are important and lead to effective stent therapy. Here, in these cases, we placed a removable fully covered self-expandable metallic stent (FSEMS) in a 52-year-old man with suture failure after surgery to treat Boerhaave syndrome, and in a 53-year-old man with a perforation in the lower esophagus due to acute esophageal necrosis. At the same time, we nasally inserted a Sengstaken-Blakemore tube (SBT), passing it through the stent lumen. By inflating a gastric balloon, the lower end of the stent was supported. When the stent migration was confirmed, the gastric balloon was lifted slightly toward the oral side to correct the stent migration. In this manner, the therapy was completed for these two patients. Using a FSEMS and SBT is a therapeutic method for correcting stent migration and regulating the complete migration of the stent into the stomach without the patient undergoing endoscopic rearrangement of the stent. It was effective for positioning a stent crossing the esophagogastric junction.
Core tip: Here, we report two cases of stent migrations that were managed using Sengstaken-Blakemore tubes, which prevented complete migration to the stomach. The correction of the stent position was easy, and did not require endoscopic guidance. By regulating the stents, nutrition management became possible through a nasoenteric feeding tube. Both patients were discharged after oral ingestion became possible.
