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Case Reports
. 1983 Jul;24(7):678-9.
doi: 10.1136/gut.24.7.678.

Acute clostridial enteritis--or pig-bel?

P G Devitt, G W Stamp
Case Reports

Acute clostridial enteritis--or pig-bel?

P G Devitt et al. Gut. 1983 Jul.

Abstract

Acute postprandial gastric dilatation and associated clostridial enteritis necroticans is a well recognised but unusual clinical condition. Non-pathological overeating, gastric distension, and clostridial enteritis, termed pig-bel, has been reported in Papua, New Guinea. A similar condition (Darmbrand) was reported from Germany after the second world war, but it is not a condition seen in our society today. Gastric dilatation alone may be seen in individuals with anorexia nervosa, who may occasionally indulge in episodes of overeating (bulimia). We wish to report a case of gastric dilatation associated with a fulminating enteritis, and discuss the similarities with enteritis necroticans (pig-bel).

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