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Successful endoscopic removal of a swallowed toothbrush, a therapeutic challenge. A case report
Extracción endoscópica exitosa de un cepillo de dientes, un reto terapéutico. Reporte de caso
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Toothbrush, Foreign Bodies, Upper Gastrointestinal Tract, Endoscopy (en)Cepillo de dientes, Cuerpos extraños, Tracto gastrointestinal superior, Endoscopia (es)
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Introduction: Toothbrush swallowing, whether voluntary or accidental, is a rare event and must be handled as an emergency, because these foreign bodies, due to their length and hardness, are not expected to pass completely through the digestive tract and may cause serious complications.
Case presentation: A 22-year-old woman with an eating disorder (bulimia nervosa) involuntarily swallowed a toothbrush while inducing vomiting. Unfortunately, after the initial assessment in the emergency department, and due to the lack of symptoms, her psychiatric history, and the fact the toothbrush was not observed in imaging studies, she was discharged. Due to the patient's insistence that she was telling the truth, she was referred to a secondary healthcare institution by her treating physician, where the successful endoscopic extraction of the toothbrush was performed 36 hours after it was swallowed. The procedure was carried out with the patient under sedation and by experts in digestive extraction who used an overtube, foreign body forceps, and polypectomy loops.
Conclusion: Cases of toothbrush swallowing are rarely reported and occur mainly in people with mental illnesses, such as eating disorders involving self-induced vomiting. Therefore, in these cases, physicians should always believe what these patients say, even in the absence of symptoms and imaging findings, as this enables their timely referral to a digestive service to confirm whether the toothbrush was swallowed or not and to perform the endoscopic extraction as soon as possible, since it can cause serious complications due to its characteristics.
Introducción. La ingesta de cepillos de dientes, voluntaria o accidental, es una situación poco frecuente que requiere ser tratada como una emergencia, pues por su longitud y dureza, no se espera que estos cuerpos extraños tengan un tránsito completo por el tracto digestivo, lo que puede causar graves complicaciones.
Presentación del caso. Mujer de 22 años con trastorno alimentario (bulimia nerviosa) quien al inducirse vomito ingirió involuntariamente un cepillo de dientes. Lamentablemente, después de la valoración inicial en el servicio de urgencias, debido a que no presentaba síntomas, a su antecedente psiquiátrico y a la no identificación del cepillo en estudios de imagen, fue dada de alta. Ante la insistencia de la paciente de decir la verdad, fue remitida por su médico tratante a una institución de salud de segundo nivel, donde, a las 36 horas de la ingesta, se realizó la extracción endoscópica exitosa del cepillo. El procedimiento fue realizado bajo sedación por expertos en extracción digestiva usando un sobretubo, pinzas para cuerpos extraños y asas de polipectomía.
Conclusión. Los casos de ingesta de cepillos de dientes son raramente reportados y ocurren principalmente en personas con trastornos psiquiátricos como desórdenes alimentarios que involucran la inducción de vómito. Por tanto, en estos casos siempre se debe creer la versión del paciente, incluso en ausencia de síntomas y hallazgos imagenológicos, pues esto posibilita una remisión oportuna al servicio digestivo para confirmar la ingesta y realizar la extracción endoscópica lo más pronto posible, ya que, por sus características, pueden causar graves complicaciones.
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