Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia in Systemic Sclerosis

Gastric antral vascular ectasia is a not so well-understood, and more rare, gastrointestinal manifestation of Systemic Sclerosis which can lead to chronic anemia. A high suspicion and better understanding of this rare manifestation is needed for early detection and treatment. Therapeutic regiments i...

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Autores principales: Johnson, Jill, Derk, Chris T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3216371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22121374
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/305238
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description Gastric antral vascular ectasia is a not so well-understood, and more rare, gastrointestinal manifestation of Systemic Sclerosis which can lead to chronic anemia. A high suspicion and better understanding of this rare manifestation is needed for early detection and treatment. Therapeutic regiments include iron supplementation with acid suppressive therapy, while endoscopic intervention has been shown to be successful in most cases, with gastrectomy or antrectomy rarely needed.
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spelling pubmed-32163712011-11-25 Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia in Systemic Sclerosis Johnson, Jill Derk, Chris T. Int J Rheumatol Review Article Gastric antral vascular ectasia is a not so well-understood, and more rare, gastrointestinal manifestation of Systemic Sclerosis which can lead to chronic anemia. A high suspicion and better understanding of this rare manifestation is needed for early detection and treatment. Therapeutic regiments include iron supplementation with acid suppressive therapy, while endoscopic intervention has been shown to be successful in most cases, with gastrectomy or antrectomy rarely needed. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3216371/ /pubmed/22121374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/305238 Text en Copyright © 2011 J. Johnson and C. T. Derk. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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