Cataclysmic Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage: Dreaded Complication of Metastatic Breast Cancer

Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) from variceal rupture is a serious condition that can be life-threatening in some cases. Usually, the main cause is portal hypertension in cirrhosis, but other etiologies like liver metastases can be also involved. We present the case of a 64-year-old woman, wi...

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Autores principales: Delsa, Hanane, Mounsif, Sara, Benslima, Najwa, Mahi, Mohamed, Rouibaa, Fedoua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9205458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35733494
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25149
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author Delsa, Hanane
Mounsif, Sara
Benslima, Najwa
Mahi, Mohamed
Rouibaa, Fedoua
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description Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) from variceal rupture is a serious condition that can be life-threatening in some cases. Usually, the main cause is portal hypertension in cirrhosis, but other etiologies like liver metastases can be also involved. We present the case of a 64-year-old woman, with a history of metastatic breast cancer, who was admitted for a massive UGIB due to ruptured esophageal varices related to portal hypertension.
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spelling pubmed-92054582022-06-21 Cataclysmic Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage: Dreaded Complication of Metastatic Breast Cancer Delsa, Hanane Mounsif, Sara Benslima, Najwa Mahi, Mohamed Rouibaa, Fedoua Cureus Emergency Medicine Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) from variceal rupture is a serious condition that can be life-threatening in some cases. Usually, the main cause is portal hypertension in cirrhosis, but other etiologies like liver metastases can be also involved. We present the case of a 64-year-old woman, with a history of metastatic breast cancer, who was admitted for a massive UGIB due to ruptured esophageal varices related to portal hypertension. Cureus 2022-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9205458/ /pubmed/35733494 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25149 Text en Copyright © 2022, Delsa 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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Delsa, Hanane
Mounsif, Sara
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Mahi, Mohamed
Rouibaa, Fedoua
Cataclysmic Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage: Dreaded Complication of Metastatic Breast Cancer
title Cataclysmic Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage: Dreaded Complication of Metastatic Breast Cancer
title_full Cataclysmic Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage: Dreaded Complication of Metastatic Breast Cancer
title_fullStr Cataclysmic Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage: Dreaded Complication of Metastatic Breast Cancer
title_full_unstemmed Cataclysmic Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage: Dreaded Complication of Metastatic Breast Cancer
title_short Cataclysmic Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage: Dreaded Complication of Metastatic Breast Cancer
title_sort cataclysmic gastrointestinal hemorrhage: dreaded complication of metastatic breast cancer
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