Case report published on hyperlipasemia due to duodenal obstruction
A 30-year-old nonverbal woman who had cerebral palsy and a chronic gastrostomy tube presented with nonbilious vomiting of tube feeds and abdominal pain.
A case report published in the Sept. 6 Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases discussed alternative causes for a patient's hyperlipasemia.
In the case, a 30-year-old nonverbal woman who had cerebral palsy and a chronic gastrostomy tube presented with nonbilious vomiting of tube feeds and abdominal pain. She had elevated lipase levels on initial workup, but CT showed that her symptoms were caused by a duodenal obstruction from gastrostomy tube migration, the authors noted.