Rare Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding

Severe gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) secondary to jejunal diverticulosis (JD) is very rare. Delay in establishing a diagnosis is common and GIB from JD is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We report an illustrative case diagnosed by push enteroscopy and managed with surgery.

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Autores principales: Abegunde, Ayokunle T., Christman, Emily, Hassell, Lewis A., Kastens, Donald
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American College of Gastroenterology 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5083883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27800518
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2016.119
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author Abegunde, Ayokunle T.
Christman, Emily
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description Severe gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) secondary to jejunal diverticulosis (JD) is very rare. Delay in establishing a diagnosis is common and GIB from JD is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We report an illustrative case diagnosed by push enteroscopy and managed with surgery.
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spelling pubmed-50838832016-10-31 Rare Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding Abegunde, Ayokunle T. Christman, Emily Hassell, Lewis A. Kastens, Donald ACG Case Rep J Case Report Severe gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) secondary to jejunal diverticulosis (JD) is very rare. Delay in establishing a diagnosis is common and GIB from JD is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We report an illustrative case diagnosed by push enteroscopy and managed with surgery. American College of Gastroenterology 2016-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5083883/ /pubmed/27800518 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2016.119 Text en Copyright © Abegunde 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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Abegunde, Ayokunle T.
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Rare Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding
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title_full Rare Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding
title_fullStr Rare Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding
title_full_unstemmed Rare Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding
title_short Rare Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5083883/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2016.119
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