Woman with recurrent vomiting

Clinical introduction

A 69-year-old woman presented to the ED with a chief complaint of recurrent vomiting for 3 weeks. She was afebrile, blood pressure was 100/67 mm Hg, HR was 114/min, RR was 19/min and oxygen saturation was 98%. On physical examination, she had mild epigastric tenderness without guarding. Blood tests were normal except for hyponatraemia of 128 mmol/L and hypokalaemia of 2.7 mmol/L. The ECG demonstrated sinus tachycardia with first-degree atrioventricular block. Chest radiograph posteroanterior view (CXR) was performed (figure 1).

Figure 1

Chest radiograph posteroanterior view. The patient presented to the ED with a complaint of recurrent vomiting for 3 weeks.

Question

Due to continuous vomiting of this patient, which of the following is the most appropriate management?

Abdominal ultrasonography.

Chest and abdominal CT.

Barium swallow.

Oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD).

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