User:Barbara (WVS)/stomach

A systematic review regarding initial treatment of phytobezoars with Coca-Cola found that Coca-Cola alone completely dissolved phytobezoars in half of cases, and that Coca-Cola combined with other endoscopic methods (particularly endoscopic fragmentation) was successful more than 90% of the time. The same review found that diopyrobezoars (which are considered more difficult to dissolve because of their hard consistency) were successfully treated with Coca-Cola alone in only 23% of cases, but that follow-up endoscopic fragmentation was successful in 84.6% of cases in the publications reviewed. When all other measures have failed, surgical gastrectomy is required to evacuate the bezoar.