Acute Esophageal Necrosis: A Case Series From a Safety Net Hospital

Acute esophageal necrosis (AEN) or "black esophagus" is a rare clinical condition, endoscopically characterized by diffuse circumferential black esophageal mucosa. Etiologies include hypoperfusion, infections, and corrosive injury. Consideration of this condition as a differential diagnosi...

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Autores principales: Vohra, Ishaan, Desai, Parth, Thapa Chhetri, Kapil, Shah, Hassam, Almoghrabi, Anas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7357330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32670679
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8542
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author Vohra, Ishaan
Desai, Parth
Thapa Chhetri, Kapil
Shah, Hassam
Almoghrabi, Anas
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description Acute esophageal necrosis (AEN) or "black esophagus" is a rare clinical condition, endoscopically characterized by diffuse circumferential black esophageal mucosa. Etiologies include hypoperfusion, infections, and corrosive injury. Consideration of this condition as a differential diagnosis is important, as early diagnosis and treatment has implications on survival. In this article, we present four unique cases of acute esophageal necrosis who were managed conservatively.
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spelling pubmed-73573302020-07-14 Acute Esophageal Necrosis: A Case Series From a Safety Net Hospital Vohra, Ishaan Desai, Parth Thapa Chhetri, Kapil Shah, Hassam Almoghrabi, Anas Cureus Internal Medicine Acute esophageal necrosis (AEN) or "black esophagus" is a rare clinical condition, endoscopically characterized by diffuse circumferential black esophageal mucosa. Etiologies include hypoperfusion, infections, and corrosive injury. Consideration of this condition as a differential diagnosis is important, as early diagnosis and treatment has implications on survival. In this article, we present four unique cases of acute esophageal necrosis who were managed conservatively. Cureus 2020-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7357330/ /pubmed/32670679 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8542 Text en Copyright © 2020, Vohra et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Vohra, Ishaan
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Thapa Chhetri, Kapil
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Acute Esophageal Necrosis: A Case Series From a Safety Net Hospital
title Acute Esophageal Necrosis: A Case Series From a Safety Net Hospital
title_full Acute Esophageal Necrosis: A Case Series From a Safety Net Hospital
title_fullStr Acute Esophageal Necrosis: A Case Series From a Safety Net Hospital
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title_short Acute Esophageal Necrosis: A Case Series From a Safety Net Hospital
title_sort acute esophageal necrosis: a case series from a safety net hospital
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7357330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32670679
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8542
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