The black esophagus and duodenum: a rare case report

Acute esophageal necrosis is a rare esophageal disease, typically characterized by the circumferential black appearance of the esophagus mucosa that usually affects the distal esophagus. It commonly affects elderly men with multiple comorbidities. In the medical literature, some cases have been repo...

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Autores principales: Saleem, Saad, Weissman, Simcha, Ahmad, Sumair
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32821358
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description Acute esophageal necrosis is a rare esophageal disease, typically characterized by the circumferential black appearance of the esophagus mucosa that usually affects the distal esophagus. It commonly affects elderly men with multiple comorbidities. In the medical literature, some cases have been reported regarding acute necrotizing esophagus, but according to our knowledge, only one case has been reported concerning a patient with ischemic duodenum and esophagus. The case of a 71-year-old man with upper gastrointestinal bleeding and subsequent acute necrotizing esophagus and duodenum has been described below.
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spelling pubmed-74174902020-08-19 The black esophagus and duodenum: a rare case report Saleem, Saad Weissman, Simcha Ahmad, Sumair Gastroenterol Hepatol Bed Bench Case Report Acute esophageal necrosis is a rare esophageal disease, typically characterized by the circumferential black appearance of the esophagus mucosa that usually affects the distal esophagus. It commonly affects elderly men with multiple comorbidities. In the medical literature, some cases have been reported regarding acute necrotizing esophagus, but according to our knowledge, only one case has been reported concerning a patient with ischemic duodenum and esophagus. The case of a 71-year-old man with upper gastrointestinal bleeding and subsequent acute necrotizing esophagus and duodenum has been described below. Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7417490/ /pubmed/32821358 Text en ©2020 RIGLD, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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