Successful treatment of esophageal perforation due to black esophagus (acute esophageal necrosis): a case report
Takahiro Ochiai, Shinsuke Takeno, Fumiaki Kawano, Kousei Tashiro, Atsushi Nanashima, Ryo Tsuzuki, Kouichi Doi · 2023
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Description
A rare condition that turns the food pipe black and can burst it is described in a 2023 case report by Takahiro Ochiai and co-authors. The condition, acute esophageal necrosis, kills tissue in the gullet wall and carries a poor outlook.
The patient was an eighty-eight-year-old woman with belly pain, found to have a burst gullet from the necrosis plus a burst duodenal ulcer. A first hospital patched both holes, but the repairs failed. At the authors' hospital, surgeons removed the gullet through the chest with a scope, brought the neck end out to the skin, and drained both cavities. Nineteen days after surgery, checks showed the new opening's lining had regrown. The report argues that bold surgery can save such patients.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Takahiro Ochiai, Shinsuke Takeno, Fumiaki Kawano, Kousei Tashiro, Atsushi Nanashima, Ryo Tsuzuki, Kouichi Doi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |