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Hematemesis as Initial Presentation in a 10-Week-Old Infant with Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is a rare condition characterized by eosinophilic inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract resulting in a variety of gastrointestinal symptoms. There is currently a dearth of information on this topic in the pediatric literature, as very few cases have been reported. I...

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Autores principales: Shetty, Varun, Daniel, Kayla E., Kesavan, Anil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28299223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2391417
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description Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is a rare condition characterized by eosinophilic inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract resulting in a variety of gastrointestinal symptoms. There is currently a dearth of information on this topic in the pediatric literature, as very few cases have been reported. In this report, we present a case of eosinophilic gastroenteritis in a 10-week-old patient with initial presenting symptom of hematemesis. To our knowledge, this is the youngest case reported in the literature and is unique in its initial presentation.
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spelling pubmed-53373572017-03-15 Hematemesis as Initial Presentation in a 10-Week-Old Infant with Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis Shetty, Varun Daniel, Kayla E. Kesavan, Anil Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is a rare condition characterized by eosinophilic inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract resulting in a variety of gastrointestinal symptoms. There is currently a dearth of information on this topic in the pediatric literature, as very few cases have been reported. In this report, we present a case of eosinophilic gastroenteritis in a 10-week-old patient with initial presenting symptom of hematemesis. To our knowledge, this is the youngest case reported in the literature and is unique in its initial presentation. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017 2017-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5337357/ /pubmed/28299223 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2391417 Text en Copyright © 2017 Varun Shetty et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Shetty, Varun
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Hematemesis as Initial Presentation in a 10-Week-Old Infant with Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis
title Hematemesis as Initial Presentation in a 10-Week-Old Infant with Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis
title_full Hematemesis as Initial Presentation in a 10-Week-Old Infant with Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis
title_fullStr Hematemesis as Initial Presentation in a 10-Week-Old Infant with Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis
title_full_unstemmed Hematemesis as Initial Presentation in a 10-Week-Old Infant with Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis
title_short Hematemesis as Initial Presentation in a 10-Week-Old Infant with Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis
title_sort hematemesis as initial presentation in a 10-week-old infant with eosinophilic gastroenteritis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28299223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2391417
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