Overview
- Doctors diagnosed Boerhaave syndrome after the man overate lentils and forcefully vomited, sending gastric contents into his chest.
- Dottor Alberto Brolese led an emergency esophageal suture lasting four hours, and the patient has been reported as improving and out of immediate danger.
- The surgeon noted that such ruptures can have mortality around 80% without rapid intervention, particularly in older patients with less elastic tissues.
- He interrupted his holiday to take the case, saying the on-call colleague lacked the experience needed for such a complex, high-risk operation.
- The team expects to document the case in the scientific literature, and Brolese urged moderation at holiday meals due to risks like alcoholic hepatitis, biliary colic, pancreatitis and gastrointestinal perforations.