CASCADE STOMACH – COMMENTARY A PROPOS A CASE

Daniel Benharroch, Department of Pathology, Soroka University Medical Centre, and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.

Roberto Umansky, Psychiatrist, Independent Physician, Retired. Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Abstract
The recognition of a cascade stomach, based on imaging, is not usually disputed by the clinician. Except for initiating therapy for reflux symptoms or for dyspepsia, a specific treatment is seldom required. Thus, a cascade stomach rarely attracts the interest of the gastroenterologist. Occasionally, more disparate features are described in a patient displaying a radiological upper gastroenterological series of this condition. It remains to prove that such symptoms represent coincidental, but non-specific features of the ailment. A patient diagnosed with a cascade stomach, who exhibited various upper abdominal complaints, the majority of which are not associated, as a rule, with this condition, is hereby reported.

Keywords
cascade stomach; dyspepsia; reflux symptoms; distal esophageal spasm

Cite this paper
Daniel Benharroch, Roberto Umansky, CASCADE STOMACH – COMMENTARY A PROPOS A CASE , SCIREA Journal of Clinical Medicine. Volume 6, Issue 3, June 2021 | PP. 150-155. 10.54647/cm32461

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