Gastric volvulus with partial and complete gastric necrosis

Abstract

Here, we report two interesting cases of gastric necrosis in acute gastric volvulus due to eventration of the diaphragm. Both the cases presented with a significant challenge and were managed successfully. The management of the cases is presented and relevant literature is discussed. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of gastric volvulus with gastric necrosis requiring complete and partial gastrectomy in the available English literature.

Keywords

• Complete gastrectomy
• diaphragmatic eventration
• gastric volvulus
• gastric necrosis
• pediatric