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- Title
The Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy: A Case and Review of Literature.
- Authors
MASSONI, FRANCESCO; RICCI, LIDIA; PELOSI, MARCELLO; RICCI, SERAFINO
- Abstract
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is a cause of high risk for morbidity and mortality. It has been debated in alcoholic cirrhosis, if alcohol exerts an exclusive and causal role upon gastropathy or whether it is linked to cirrhotic portal hypertension. The authors describe an autopsy report regarding mortality caused by gastric bleeding in a 53-year-old patient who suffered from cirrhosis. Literature has evidence of direct, marked damage of alcohol upon the gastric mucosa and there is noteworthy statistical data implying the revaluation of the pathogenesis of the bleeding.
- Subjects
PORTAL hypertension
- Publication
Journal of Clinical & Diagnostic Research, 2016, Vol 10, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
0973-709X
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.7860/JCDR/2016/14489.7942