“…Gastric ischemia may also cause infection of the gastric wall by local bacterial invasion, due to ulceration, or from hematogenous spread and develop emphysematous gastritis (EG) 6,7 . EG is a rare entity because the vast gastric vascularization and the acid environment prevent the development of infections 8 . There are several predisposing factors, all of them discarded in our patient, such as chronic alcohol consumption, emesis, steroids, and non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs intake, immunosuppression, and gastric wall corrosion with acid or alkali 6,9 .…”