Laparoscopic Approach for Gallstone Ileus in Geriatric Patients

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Anupam K GuptaBruce Brenner

Abstract

We report two patients who presented with small bowel obstruction secondary to gallstones in the ileum. Both patients were geriatric women with multiple comorbidities. The first patient was a 73-year-old woman who presented with a gallstone eroding and obstructing the duodenum (Bouveret's syndrome) secondary to gallbladder cancer with diffuse metastatic spread to the liver. The stone was disimpacted endoscopically using lithotripsy. The patient presented two days later after the stone had migrated downstream into the small bowel causing obstruction requiring surgical intervention. Second patient was an 81-year-old woman who presented with small bowel obstruction caused by a gallbladder stone impacted in the distal ileum. Both patients were managed laparoscopically with a mini laparotomy to extract the affected segment of bowel loop via small incision on the anterior abdominal wall at the port site with enterolithotomy. Both patients were discharged by postoperative day four with no complications. We conclude that, in elderly patients with multiple comorbidities presenting with gallstone ileus, laparoscopic approach provides early recovery with minimal pain.

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