[Treatment of an intermittent stomach volvulus using gastropexy via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy].

A 72-year-old woman had been experiencing upper abdominal pain and vomiting for 2 years. On physical examination the abdomen was swollen and pressure sensitive. She had a leukocytosis (11,400/microliter) and hypokalaemia (3.6 mmol/l). X-ray films of the chest and abdomen revealed a large gastric air-bubble with two fluid levels of different height and an elevated left diaphragm, findings which suggested gastric volvulus. Most of the fluid was evacuated via a nasogastric tube. The stomach interior was difficult to examine by gastroscopy: it was only after withdrawal of the gastroscope from the duodenum that a normal gastric architecture was demonstrated, the volvulus apparently having been reduced during the gastroscopy. The gastric mucosa showed ulcerations and erosions. Gastropexy by gluing together the peritoneal layers was undertaken via dual percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy. The catheters were removed after 4 weeks when the ulcerations had healed. The patient has been free of symptoms for more than a year so far.