Imatinib-induced gastric antral vascular ectasia in a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) has been reported very rarely in imatinib-treated gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and scleroderma/pulmonary hypertension patients. We present the first report of a case of GAVE in a chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patient after treatm...

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Autores principales: Alshehry, Nawal F, Kortan, Paul, Lipton, Jeffrey H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25356253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.49
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author Alshehry, Nawal F
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description KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) has been reported very rarely in imatinib-treated gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and scleroderma/pulmonary hypertension patients. We present the first report of a case of GAVE in a chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patient after treatment with imatinib. This diagnosis should be considered in CML patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms and anemia.
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spelling pubmed-41845972014-10-29 Imatinib-induced gastric antral vascular ectasia in a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia Alshehry, Nawal F Kortan, Paul Lipton, Jeffrey H Clin Case Rep Case Reports KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) has been reported very rarely in imatinib-treated gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and scleroderma/pulmonary hypertension patients. We present the first report of a case of GAVE in a chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patient after treatment with imatinib. This diagnosis should be considered in CML patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms and anemia. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014-06 2014-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4184597/ /pubmed/25356253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.49 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title Imatinib-induced gastric antral vascular ectasia in a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia
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title_fullStr Imatinib-induced gastric antral vascular ectasia in a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia
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title_short Imatinib-induced gastric antral vascular ectasia in a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia
title_sort imatinib-induced gastric antral vascular ectasia in a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25356253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.49
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