An Autobiographical Case Report of Eosinophilic Esophagitis: A Diagnosis That Is Hard to Swallow

This case is an autobiographical report and a first-hand account of my experience with eosinophilic esophagitis. It follows my realization of symptoms through food bolus obstruction, treatment with steroids and proton pump inhibitors, and remission of symptoms. This case shows how even someone with...

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Autores principales: Happach, Vincenzo, Daniel, Matthew, Buckert, Jason
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10256250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37303451
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38852
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description This case is an autobiographical report and a first-hand account of my experience with eosinophilic esophagitis. It follows my realization of symptoms through food bolus obstruction, treatment with steroids and proton pump inhibitors, and remission of symptoms. This case shows how even someone with healthcare experience can go years without an appropriate diagnosis of this poorly understood condition.
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spelling pubmed-102562502023-06-10 An Autobiographical Case Report of Eosinophilic Esophagitis: A Diagnosis That Is Hard to Swallow Happach, Vincenzo Daniel, Matthew Buckert, Jason Cureus Emergency Medicine This case is an autobiographical report and a first-hand account of my experience with eosinophilic esophagitis. It follows my realization of symptoms through food bolus obstruction, treatment with steroids and proton pump inhibitors, and remission of symptoms. This case shows how even someone with healthcare experience can go years without an appropriate diagnosis of this poorly understood condition. Cureus 2023-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10256250/ /pubmed/37303451 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38852 Text en Copyright © 2023, Happach et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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An Autobiographical Case Report of Eosinophilic Esophagitis: A Diagnosis That Is Hard to Swallow
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title_short An Autobiographical Case Report of Eosinophilic Esophagitis: A Diagnosis That Is Hard to Swallow
title_sort autobiographical case report of eosinophilic esophagitis: a diagnosis that is hard to swallow
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10256250/
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