Systematic review: Coca-Cola can effectively dissolve gastric phytobezoars as a first-line treatment.
Aliment Pharmacol Ther
; 37(2): 169-73, 2013 Jan.
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BACKGROUND: Gastric phytobezoars represent the most common bezoars in patients with poor gastric motility. A variety of dissolution therapies and endoscopic fragmentation techniques have been evaluated as conservative treatment so as to avoid surgery. AIM: To investigate the effectiveness of Coca-Cola for gastric phytobezoars dissolution. METHODS: We performed a systematic search to identify publications on gastric phytobezoars to assess the efficacy of Coca-Cola as a dissolution therapy. Diospyrobezoars, formed after persimmon ingestion, are a distinct type of phytobezoars characterized by their hard consistency. Thus, these two subgroups of bezoars were compared in terms of successful dissolution. RESULTS: Over a 10-year period (2002-2012), 24 papers including 46 patients have been published. In 91.3% of the cases, phytobezoar resolution with Coca-Cola administration was successful, either as a single treatment (50%) or combined with further endoscopic techniques, whereas only 4 patients underwent surgery. Phytobezoars were more likely to dissolve after initial attempt with Coca-Cola compared with diospyrobezoars (60.6% vs. 23%, P = 0.022). CONCLUSIONS: Coca-Cola alone is effective in gastric phytobezoar dissolution in half of the cases and, combined with additional endoscopic methods, is successful in more than 90% of them.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Estómago
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Bezoares
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Bebidas Gaseosas
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Lavado Gástrico
Tipo de estudio:
Systematic_reviews
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Aliment Pharmacol Ther
Asunto de la revista:
FARMACOLOGIA
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GASTROENTEROLOGIA
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TERAPIA POR MEDICAMENTOS
Año:
2013
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Grecia
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido