Korean J Gastrointest Endosc.  2007 Jan;34(1):38-42.

A Case of Gastric Bezoar Treated by an Endoscopic Coca-Cola Injection

• Kim SJ
• Lee JH
• Chang WI
• Choi KA
• Han AR
• Song YB
• Kim JJ
• Rhee JC

Abstract

Bezoars are the most common foreign bodies in the stomach as seen endoscopically with a frequency of approximately 0.4%. They consist of persistent concretions or hard accumulations of non-digestible vegetable matter, hair or more unusual materials. Gastric bezoars develop in patients with previous gastric surgery, gastric outlet obstruction, or poor gastric emptying such as gastroparesis due to hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus or mixed connective tissue disease. The clinical presentations of gastric bezoars include epigastric pain, a palpable mass, a gastrointestinal obstruction and peptic ulceration. The treatment options include surgery, enzymatic dissolution or endoscopic mechanical fragmentation and/or removal. Recently, the efficacy of the administration or lavage of 'Coca-Cola' for the effective dissolution of gastric bezoars has been reported. We report a case of a 27-year-old woman with a large gastric bezoar that was successfully removed by the direct endoscopic injection of a carbonated beverage ('Coca-Cola light', a sugar free product; Coca cola Co., Seoul, South Korea) into the bezoar, which led to fragmentatio

Keyword

Bezoar; Endoscopy; Coca-Cola

MeSH Terms

Adult
Bezoars*
Carbonated Beverages
Coca
Cola
Diabetes Mellitus
Endoscopy
Female
Foreign Bodies
Gastric Emptying
Gastric Outlet Obstruction
Gastroparesis
Hair
Humans
Hypothyroidism
Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
Peptic Ulcer
Seoul
Stomach
Therapeutic Irrigation
Vegetables