Affiliation:
1. Gastroenterology Department Hospital da Senhora da Oliveira Guimarães Portugal
2. Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine University of Minho Braga Portugal
3. ICVS/3B's – PT Government Associate Laboratory Braga/Guimarães Portugal
Abstract
AbstractIntroductionForeign body (FB) ingestion is a common indication for urgent esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). Nevertheless, most pass spontaneously through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Differently from GI bleeding, there is no validated score aiming to identify “low‐risk” patients in suspected FB ingestion. We aimed to create a score able to discriminate patients who are candidates to emergent EGD in this scenario.MethodsRetrospective study of consecutive patients admitted for suspected FB in the upper GI tract between 2016 and 2021. The evaluated outcome was endoscopic confirmation of FB in the esophagus. Variables significantly associated with the outcome on multivariate analysis were computed into a score predicting endoscopic confirmation.ResultsWe included 228 patients. From these, 97 (42.5%) had a confirmed FB in EGD. Time since ingestion <6 h (OR = 4.0; P = 0.042), absence of any meal after FB ingestion (OR = 7.1; P = 0.005), dysphagia (OR = 11.8; P < 0.001), odynophagia (OR = 4.6; P = 0.004), and drooling (OR = 15.1; P < 0.001) were independent predictors of confirmed FB. These variables were used to compute a FB predicting score—the Decision‐To‐Scope (DTS) Score: time since ingestion <6 h (+1 point), absence of meals (+2 points), dysphagia (+3 points), odynophagia (+1 point), and drooling (+4 points). DTS‐Score had excellent accuracy to predict the outcome (AUC = 0.953; 95%CI = 0.928–0.977; P < 0.001). The optimal cutoff to identify low‐risk patients was a score ≤5 (sensitivity 85.0% and specificity 94.7%).ConclusionsMore than half of the suspected FB were not confirmed by EGD. The DTS‐Score presented excellent accuracy at stratifying patients' risk and may contribute to the decision to perform emergent EGD in suspected FB ingestion.
Subject
Gastroenterology,Hepatology
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