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Age and Ageing 2005 34(6):650-651; doi:10.1093/ageing/afi204
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Buried Bumper Syndrome complicated by intra-abdominal sepsis

Gareth Walters, P. Ramesh and Muhammed Ibrahim Memon

Department of Care of the Elderly, Solihull Hospital, Heart of England Foundation Trust, Lode Lane, Solihull, West Midlands B91 2JL, UK

Address correspondence to P. Ramesh. Fax (+44) 0121 424 4611. Email: parthasarathy.ramesh{at}heartofengland.nhs.uk

There is growing evidence that enteral feeding tubes are associated with increased mortality and complication rates in patients with advanced dementia. Buried Bumper Syndrome is an uncommon, but well documented late complication of PEG placement. Our case report reinforces this recognised risk of PEG feeding in an elderly, cognitively impaired patient.

Keywords: percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, dementia, buried bumper syndrome

Received July 28, 2005; accepted in revised form August 3, 2005.


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