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Pathologic aerophagia: a rare cause of chronic abdominal distension
Aerofagia patológica: uma causa rara de distensão abdominal crônica
Lisieux Eyer de Jesus
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, Ana Beatriz C.S.S. Cestari, Orli Carvalho da Silva Filho, Marcia Antunes Fernandes, Livia Honorato Firme
Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, RJ, Brazil
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Rio de Janeiro&#44; Brazil&#44; to be investigated for possible aganglionic megacolon&#46; The girl was blind&#44; presented serious behavior problems and severe developmental delay and was unable to cooperate with anamnesis and physical examination&#46; Her mother recalled a history of abdominal distension only from the last 8 months&#44; unresponsive to repetitive enemas and associated with pain crises that demanded repetitive consultations to Pediatric emergency services&#46; Moderate constipation was noted since the girl was a toddler and dealt with by occasional usage of oral laxatives&#46; Appetite was preserved during the crises and there were no signs of gastric dysfunction&#44; retching or vomiting&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Her physical examination showed a seriously undernourished prepubertal girl &#8722;14&#46;5<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>kg &#40;&#60;5th percentile of World Health Organization growth curve&#41;&#59;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> 102cm &#40;&#60;5th percentile of World Health Organization growth curve&#41;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a>&#44; with severe diffuse abdominal distension &#40;abdominal circumference 76cm at the level of the umbilicus&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>&#41;&#46; Peristalsis was normal&#46; There were no palpable masses or abdominal pain&#46; Anal and rectal examination demonstrated a normotonic topic anus&#46; The rectum was full of solid feces&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Neuropsychiatric evaluation confirmed severe developmental delay and disproportionate aggressiveness toward the medical team&#46; Several repetitive stereotyped movements &#40;repetitive biting of the hands&#44; moving the thorax forward and backwards and agitating a chatterbox&#41; were observed&#46; The patient was in chronic use of pericyazine &#40;8<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg in the morning and 10<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg at night&#41; that was gradually withdrawn during admission&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The child was born prematurely after a twin gestation&#46; She presented congenital cataract and was submitted to a fundoplication and gastrostomy at 3 months old to treat swallowing problems&#44; repetitive aspiration and symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux&#46; After a difficult perinatal period the patient was abandoned by the mother and institutionalized&#46; Her gastrostomy was taken off and she was then orally fed&#46; The girl was adopted at 2-years-old&#44; together with two other neurologically impaired children&#46; The family already had other natural children and the father is wheelchair-bound&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">An abdominal CT and several abdominal radiographs showed diffuse gas distension of the small bowel and colon &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Her constipation was controlled with daily enemas for 15 days&#44; after which the girl evacuated spontaneously daily&#46; A rectal biopsy excluded Hirschsprung&#39;s disease&#46; Clinical observation demonstrated that her distension was minimal at the moment the child awoke in the morning &#40;mean abdominal circumference of 68cm&#41; and maximal at evening &#40;mean abdominal of circumference 74cm&#41;&#46; Audible repetitive and frequent movements of air swallowing were observed&#46; To test the hypothesis of pathologic aerophagia in a patient incapable of burping&#44; her abdominal perimeter was measured &#40;76cm&#41; and a nasogastric catheter was installed and opened for 24<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>h&#46; At the end of the period&#44; her abdominal perimeter was 61cm&#46; A few hours after taking off the catheter her abdominal perimeter reached 78cm&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Departing from the diagnosis of pathologic aerophagia associated to obsessive&#8211;compulsive disorder and developmental delay&#44; treatment with risperidone 1&#46;5mg&#47;day &#40;0&#46;5mg in the morning and 1&#46;0mg at night&#41; 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8&#46;8&#37; of institutionalized mentally impaired children present aerophagia&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> Pathological aerophagia may represent the more severe spectrum of aerophagia in this specific population and underreporting is possible&#46; There are no data about the incidence of pathological aerophagia in the normal pediatric population&#46; Most children without previous psychiatric diagnoses that present pathological aerophagia are dealing with acute stress situations &#40;e&#46;g&#46; school entrance&#44; birth of siblings&#44; divorce of parents&#44; hospital admission&#41;&#46; In those cases pathological aerophagia tends to disappear as the stressful situation resolves&#44; but language and&#47;or behavior problems are common&#44; together with obvious signs of anxiety&#46; In some patients pathological aerophagia is simply substituted by some other expression of anxiety&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a></p><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Some specialists even associate pathological aerophagia to self-destructing behavior&#46; 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including small bowel&#44; without signs of intestinal obstruction&#46; Fluoroscopy may demonstrate the typical swallowing movements and abnormal pharyngoesophageal coordination&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a></p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The differential diagnosis is with functional gastrointestinal problems &#40;chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction&#44; severe constipation&#44; Hirschsprung&#39;s disease&#41;&#44; malabsorption syndromes&#44; anatomical intestinal obstruction and tracheoesophageal fistulae&#46; Gas bloat syndrome may be considered in patients who had a previous fundoplication&#46; The diagnosis of pathological aerophagia is rare and depends on clinical awareness&#46; The exclusion of other conditions may demand complex complementary exams and delay treatment&#46; In our case&#44; the diagnosis was based on exclusion of intestinal muscular or neuronal abnormalities by biopsy&#44; 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prospectively treated 15 mentally impaired children with pathological aerophagia with a low oral dose of clonazepan &#40;0&#46;025mg&#47;kg&#47;day in two doses&#44; slowly augmented to 0&#46;1mg&#47;kg&#47;day as needed&#41; for 4 months &#40;or for a month after the patient was asymptomatic&#41;&#46; The drug was slowly tapered off&#46; No serious side effects were observed&#46; When compared to a control group treated with only reassurance &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">n</span>&#61;7&#41;&#44; 67&#37; of the clonazepan group and 14&#37; of the reassurance group resolved the symptoms &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span>&#61;0&#46;032&#41;&#44; both without recurrence&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> The effect of clonazepan may be centrally mediated&#44; due to control of anxiety or affect directly the pathological mechanism that triggers the repetitive swallowing movements&#46;</p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Behavioral&#47;psychological therapy may be tried&#44; but the efficacy is questionable in mentally impaired patients&#46; Reassurance&#47;psychotherapy was efficient in half of the cases treated by Delapetriere et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> In our child&#44; we tried specific pharmacological treatment for obsessive&#47;compulsive disorder without success&#46;</p><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Phonoaudiologic treatment has been successfully tried in 3&#47;13 patients<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> but is not an option in cases of serious psychiatric disease and&#47;or cognitive deficit&#46; In our patient speech therapists judged that reconditioning was not possible&#46;</p><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Decompression with a nasogastric tube can be used in cases of acute distension&#46; Surgical treatments are rarely needed&#44; almost exclusively in mentally impaired patients&#46; Gastrostomy is the most frequent proposal&#44; but may not always be effective&#44; as in the cases of Fukuzawa and Gauderer&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3&#44;12</span></a> Recently Fukuzawa et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> proposed an esophagogastric separation and an abdominal esophageal decompressive stoma to treat two severely affected patients unresponsive to gastrostomy &#40;both previously complicated with volvulus and necrosis&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In conclusion&#44; pathological aerophagia is a rare condition that occurs in normal children exposed to high levels of stress&#44; for whom the disease is normally self-limited&#44; or in children with psychiatric or neurologic disease&#46; In this last group&#44; the disease may persist and cause serious complications&#46; Pharmacological and behavioral treatments are ill-defined and their success is doubtful&#46; Severe cases may demand surgical strategies&#44; mainly decompressive gastrostomy&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0070">Funding</span><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This study did not receive funding&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0075">Conflicts of interest</span><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare no conflicts of interest&#46;</p></span></span>"
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