A Patency Capsule Remained Intact in the Colon over 210 Hours

Abstract EN

We present an unusual case of a 35-year-old male patient whom a patency capsule stayed in his gut without breaking.

He has a history of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome and multiple abdominal surgeries.

Prestudy was performed for abdominal searching, but a patency capsule remained in the colon over 9 days.

He displayed neither abdominal nor obstructive symptoms in that period.

We collected the patency capsule using colonoscopy after dilating a postoperative stricture at an anastomotic site of the rectum.

Clinicians should bear in mind that patency capsules may become retained as distally as the colon in patients with a surgical history of the large intestine.