Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)
A case of the endoscopic removal of a gastric bezoar made of sodium zirconium cyclosilicate hydrate.
Katsuma Yamauchi, Aya Kitae, Masayuki Hara, Seiya Sugeta, Keiji Yoneda, Tomohiro Ueda, Kazuhiro Tsuji, Yasutaka Morimoto, Akiko Shibuya, Tomoyuki Ono, Tomoki Nakajima, Norimasa Yoshida, Miyuki Kitade, Hiroyuki Inagake, Nozomi Yoshioka
Published: 202610.2169/internalmedicine.6743-25
Abstract
Sodium zirconium cyclosilicate hydrate (SZC) is a novel potassium binder that can be administered either orally or via nasogastric tubes. We report the case of a 77-year-old woman who developed a 37-mm gastric bezoar after nasogastric SZC administrat…
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