Massive Esophageal Variceal Bleeding as a Rare Complication of Sickle Cell Anemia

A 24-year-old man with sickle cell anemia presented with fatigue, dark stool, and coffee ground emesis. He was found to have large esophageal varices and experienced massive variceal hemorrhage in the hospital. The varices were caused by diffuse splanchnic venous thrombosis, and his only risk factor...

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Autores principales: Malamood, Mark, Bernstein, Gregory, Malik, Zubair, Mathur, Malini
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American College of Gastroenterology 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26958556
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2016.10
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author Malamood, Mark
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Malik, Zubair
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description A 24-year-old man with sickle cell anemia presented with fatigue, dark stool, and coffee ground emesis. He was found to have large esophageal varices and experienced massive variceal hemorrhage in the hospital. The varices were caused by diffuse splanchnic venous thrombosis, and his only risk factor for hypercoagulability was sickle cell anemia. Splanchnic venous thrombosis due to sickle cell anemia is exceedingly rare.
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spelling pubmed-47481922016-03-08 Massive Esophageal Variceal Bleeding as a Rare Complication of Sickle Cell Anemia Malamood, Mark Bernstein, Gregory Malik, Zubair Mathur, Malini ACG Case Rep J Case Report A 24-year-old man with sickle cell anemia presented with fatigue, dark stool, and coffee ground emesis. He was found to have large esophageal varices and experienced massive variceal hemorrhage in the hospital. The varices were caused by diffuse splanchnic venous thrombosis, and his only risk factor for hypercoagulability was sickle cell anemia. Splanchnic venous thrombosis due to sickle cell anemia is exceedingly rare. American College of Gastroenterology 2016-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4748192/ /pubmed/26958556 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2016.10 Text en Copyright © Malamood et al. This is an open-access article. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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title_fullStr Massive Esophageal Variceal Bleeding as a Rare Complication of Sickle Cell Anemia
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title_sort massive esophageal variceal bleeding as a rare complication of sickle cell anemia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748192/
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