Daily Archives: February 1, 2016

Laparoscopic surgery repair of perforated pre-pyloric gastric ulcer

This is a 48 years old female with history of chronic back pain on multiple pain medications, including aspirin who came into the emergency room with sudden onset of severe upper abdominal pain and found to have significant tenderness on her physical examination. Her abdominal CT scan showed free intraabdominal air and fluid, consistent with perforated viscus.

Laparoscopic primary repair of perforated diverticulitis

This is a 52 years old female who presented to the emergency room with two days history of severe left lower quadrant abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and fever. She was found to have severe tenderness and guarding in the left lower quadrant and her abdominal CT scan showed severe sigmoid diverticulitis with micro-perforation and significant peri-colonic inflammatory changes.