A Case of Mallory-Weiss Syndrome Complicating Pregnancy in a Patient with Scleroderma

The majority of patients with scleroderma have gastrointestinal involvement(1)), and a few experience gastrointestinal hemorrhage, however, gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to Mallory-Weiss syndrome is very rare(2,3)). We report upon a 24-year-old pregnant woman with scleroderma who had gastrointesti...

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Autores principales: Cho, Kyu-Hyun, Heo, Seong-Wook, Chung, Seung-Hie, Kim, Chae-Gi, Kim, Ho Gak, Choe, Jung-Yoon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2003
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4531641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14717233
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2003.18.4.238
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Sumario:The majority of patients with scleroderma have gastrointestinal involvement(1)), and a few experience gastrointestinal hemorrhage, however, gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to Mallory-Weiss syndrome is very rare(2,3)). We report upon a 24-year-old pregnant woman with scleroderma who had gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to Mallory-Weiss syndrome.

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