Abstract:Total enteric feeding through a filiform indwelling catheter is being used more and more. Various indwelling catheters have been developed for this purpose, one of them a catheter (Salvisond) which has a "pulling" balloon, for advancing the catheter tip through the stomach into the small intestine, while a retaining balloon is inflated, once the tip has reached its final location, to prevent its dislocation. In a patient with Crohn's disease the retaining balloon, for unforeseeable and unexplained reasons, exp… Show more
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