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- Title
Watermelon stomach in a patient with primary Sjögren's syndrome.
- Authors
Krstić, Miodrag; Alempijević, Tamara; Andrejević, Sladjana; Zlatanović, Maja; Damjanov, Nemanja; Ivanović, Branislava; Jovanović, Ivan; Tarabar, Dino; Milosavljević, Tomica
- Abstract
Watermelon stomach (WS) or gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) is a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding described in a variety of autoimmune disorders. Association of watermelon stomach with Sjögren's syndrome is extremely rare. CASE REPORT; We presented a 67-year old female with primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) who had developed a persistent severe iron-deficiency anemia. An upper gastric endoscopy revealed the presence of gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) as a cause of occult gastrointestinal bleeding. The treatment with argon-plasma coagulation was postponed as the conservative therapy with iron substitution and proton pump inhibitor led to improvement of anemia and hemoglobin levels normalization.
- Publication
Vojnosanitetski pregled, 2010, Vol 67, Issue 3, p256
- ISSN
0042-8450
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2298/vsp1003256k