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Post-vagotomy complications

Introduction

Differential diagnosis of dumping syndrome based on post-vagotomy complications:

Gastric dumping syndrome should be differentiated from other diseases presenting with weight loss, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. The differentials include the following:[1][2][3][4][5]

Differential Diagnosis for Postgastrectomy complications Clinical features Diagnosis
Short bowel syndrome
Small-capacity syndrome
  • Clinical diagnosis with a history of surgery
Afferent loop syndrome
Efferent loop syndrome
Postvagotomy diarrhea
  • Clinical diagnosis with a history of surgery

References

  1. ↑ “Mastery of Surgery – Google Books”.
  2. ↑ Bushkin FL, Woodward ER (1976). “The afferent loop syndrome”. Major Probl Clin Surg. 20: 34–48. PMID 957782.
  3. ↑ Gorbashko AI (1992). “[The pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of postvagotomy diarrhea]”. Vestn. Khir. Im. I. I. Grek. (in Russian). 148 (3): 254–62. PMID 8594740.
  4. ↑ Kwak JM, Kim J, Suh SO (2010). “Anterograde jejunojejunal intussusception resulted in acute efferent loop syndrome after subtotal gastrectomy”. World J. Gastroenterol. 16 (27): 3472–4. PMC 2904898. PMID 20632454.
  5. ↑ Parrish CR, DiBaise JK (2017). “Managing the Adult Patient With Short Bowel Syndrome”. Gastroenterol Hepatol (N Y). 13 (10): 600–608. PMC 5718176. PMID 29230136.

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