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"Downhill" varices. A rare cause of esophageal hemorrhage

dc.contributor.authorAreia, M
dc.contributor.authorRomãozinho, JM
dc.contributor.authorFerreira, M
dc.contributor.authorAmaro, P
dc.contributor.authorFreitas, D
dc.date.accessioned2010-12-22T15:02:50Z
dc.date.available2010-12-22T15:02:50Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstract"Downhill" varices or upper esophageal varices are a rare cause of proximal digestive tract hemorrhage with only 16 cases described in the literature. In our series, hemorrhage due to "downhill" varices represents 0.1% of all acute esophageal variceal bleeding. Their etiology differs from that of the usual "uphill" varices secondary to portal hypertension, and the clinical management should be directed to vascular obstruction if present. We report a case of an 89-year-old male with hemorrhagic "downhill" varices not associated, as usually, with superior vena cava obstruction or compression, but with severe pulmonary hypertension and drug-related hemorrhagic risk factors, whose removal proved sufficient to prevent rebleeding.por
dc.identifier.citationRev Esp Enferm Dig. 2006 May;98(5):359-61.por
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/918
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
dc.publisherAránpor
dc.subjectDoenças do Esófagopor
dc.subjectHemorragia Gastrointestinalpor
dc.title"Downhill" varices. A rare cause of esophageal hemorrhagepor
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspor
rcaap.typearticlepor

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