Treatment of bezoar-induced intestinal obstruction is usually performed by an open approach, with either digital fragmentation or removal of the bezoar via enterotomy.
Involvement of the GI tract can be asymptomatic or it can cause weight loss, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding, malabsorption or intestinal obstruction.
Doctors at a hospital in Sao Paulo treating the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have ruled out an emergency surgery for a possible intestinal obstruction.