Current Events > Paging doctors of CE. Swirling omentum. Apparently my Mom has it?

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An emergency room doctor mentioned it but I have no idea what it means and any info I can Google up means absolutely nothing to me.

Does she have a hernia? It's when part of your stomach is twisted

Njolk posted...

Does she have a hernia?

Not as far as I know

Njolk posted...

It's when part of your stomach is twisted

Jesus Christ. Is it fixable?

Your abdominal organs have connective tissue that holds them in place and through which blood vessels travel to reach them. The omentum is the tissue that feeds and holds the stomach in place. It's fixable through surgery and what's important is the degree of blood supply loss her stomach is going through (how long, how twisted, which blood vessels).

AMA else if you need to.

I've never heard of such a thing, maybe they meant some kind of torsion?

Llaeto7 posted...

Your abdominal organs have connective tissue that holds them in place and through which blood vessels travel to reach them. The omentum is the tissue that feeds and holds the stomach in place. It's fixable through surgery and what's important is the degree of blood supply loss her stomach is going through (how long, how twisted, which blood vessels).

AMA else if you need to.

Is this something people die of??

She went to the ER with constant vomiting with no nausea. They ended up discharging her and she called her family doctor about it

As for the length of things she's had 2 (now 3) episodes since the spring where for about a week or two she'll have vomiting spells. Her family doctor suspected it was a gallbladder thing but scans turned up nothing. They originally thought it may have been a delayed reaction to the COVID vaccine since the timing of the episodes lined up very closely with her shots.

She also has had to have a stent put in back in 2018 and had one of her kidneys removed in early 2019 due to kidney cancer. She's in remission now ane gets regular scans with her oncologist.

Would this not have turned up in various CTs and Xrays she'd have gotten recently though?

DarkRoast posted...

I've never heard of such a thing, maybe they meant some kind of torsion?

Maybe something like that yeah. My family has a habit of butchering words

They might be talking about torsion or something and what's called abdominal adhesions, which are pieces of tissue that form between the omentum and the abdominal wall after some surgeries. Sometimes organs get caught up in those adhesions and get twisted (torsion).