A case report of an endoscopic approach to life‐threatening cecal variceal hemorrhage

Cecal varices are a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis. We describe a 29‐year‐old man with decompensated alcoholic cirrhosis who developed gastrointestinal bleeding in the hospital. A computed tomography mesenteric angiogram showed bleeding cecal varices, which were s...

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Autores principales: MacFarlane, Kirsty E, Fischer, Nicholas J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9021714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35475196
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgh3.12733
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description Cecal varices are a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis. We describe a 29‐year‐old man with decompensated alcoholic cirrhosis who developed gastrointestinal bleeding in the hospital. A computed tomography mesenteric angiogram showed bleeding cecal varices, which were successfully treated by glue injection therapy at colonoscopy. The procedure appeared to be complicated by bacteremia due to Escherichia coli.
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spelling pubmed-90217142022-04-25 A case report of an endoscopic approach to life‐threatening cecal variceal hemorrhage MacFarlane, Kirsty E Fischer, Nicholas J JGH Open Case Reports Cecal varices are a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis. We describe a 29‐year‐old man with decompensated alcoholic cirrhosis who developed gastrointestinal bleeding in the hospital. A computed tomography mesenteric angiogram showed bleeding cecal varices, which were successfully treated by glue injection therapy at colonoscopy. The procedure appeared to be complicated by bacteremia due to Escherichia coli. Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd 2022-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9021714/ /pubmed/35475196 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgh3.12733 Text en © 2022 The Authors. JGH Open published by Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Foundation and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr A case report of an endoscopic approach to life‐threatening cecal variceal hemorrhage
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title_short A case report of an endoscopic approach to life‐threatening cecal variceal hemorrhage
title_sort case report of an endoscopic approach to life‐threatening cecal variceal hemorrhage
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