Dieulafoy’s lesion: an unexpected and rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Saravana Kumar Rajanthran and Harjit Chaal Singh and Da Jun Than and Firdaus Hayati (2020) Dieulafoy’s lesion: an unexpected and rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. BMJ Case Reports, 13 (12). ISSN 1757-790X

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Abstract

A 51- year- old man with multiple comorbidities of hypertension, chronic kidney disease, dyslip-idaemia and a history of stroke was presented to the emergency department with a 1 day epigastric pain. He was subsequently diagnosed with hyper-tensive emergency and inferior myocardial infarc-tion. Despite being administered an intravenous infusion of glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), his condition deteriorated and he developed cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation, which required cardiopul-monary resuscitation and defibrillation. The patient had stormy recoveries with multiple episodes of hospital- acquired pneumonia and prolonged intu-bation due to failed extubation. He was put on double antiplatelet medication and subcutaneous low- molecular weight heparins injection.

Item Type:	Article
Keyword:	Dieulafoy’s lesion, Gastrointestinal bleeding
Subjects:	R Medicine > RD Surgery
Department:	FACULTY > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Depositing User:	DG MASNIAH AHMAD -
Date Deposited:	23 Apr 2021 19:33
Last Modified:	23 Apr 2021 19:33
URI:	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26792

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