A Rare Case of Gastrointestinal Amyloidosis Presenting as Dysphagia

A 74-year-old male with an unintentional 20-pound weight loss over the past year presented with new-onset dysphagia to solid foods. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed a subtle stricture with ill-defined scar tissue-like findings in the distal esophagus and erosions in the antrum of the stomach withou...

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Autores principales: Ailawadi, Shaina, Cheema, Bahar K, Salahuddin, Syed, Agrawal, Sangeeta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8920811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35308673
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22085
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author Ailawadi, Shaina
Cheema, Bahar K
Salahuddin, Syed
Agrawal, Sangeeta
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description A 74-year-old male with an unintentional 20-pound weight loss over the past year presented with new-onset dysphagia to solid foods. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed a subtle stricture with ill-defined scar tissue-like findings in the distal esophagus and erosions in the antrum of the stomach without masses. Pathologic findings showed the presence of amyloidosis involving the proximal and distal esophagus, as well as gastric mucosa with chronic inflammation and reactive epithelial changes. We present a rare case of dysphagia as the initial presentation of gastrointestinal amyloidosis.
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spelling pubmed-89208112022-03-18 A Rare Case of Gastrointestinal Amyloidosis Presenting as Dysphagia Ailawadi, Shaina Cheema, Bahar K Salahuddin, Syed Agrawal, Sangeeta Cureus Internal Medicine A 74-year-old male with an unintentional 20-pound weight loss over the past year presented with new-onset dysphagia to solid foods. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed a subtle stricture with ill-defined scar tissue-like findings in the distal esophagus and erosions in the antrum of the stomach without masses. Pathologic findings showed the presence of amyloidosis involving the proximal and distal esophagus, as well as gastric mucosa with chronic inflammation and reactive epithelial changes. We present a rare case of dysphagia as the initial presentation of gastrointestinal amyloidosis. Cureus 2022-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8920811/ /pubmed/35308673 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22085 Text en Copyright © 2022, Ailawadi et al. https://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.
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Ailawadi, Shaina
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Agrawal, Sangeeta
A Rare Case of Gastrointestinal Amyloidosis Presenting as Dysphagia
title A Rare Case of Gastrointestinal Amyloidosis Presenting as Dysphagia
title_full A Rare Case of Gastrointestinal Amyloidosis Presenting as Dysphagia
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Gastrointestinal Amyloidosis Presenting as Dysphagia
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title_sort rare case of gastrointestinal amyloidosis presenting as dysphagia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8920811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35308673
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22085
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