Open AccessIleal ulcers due to gastrointestinal amyloidosis as an unusual cause of severe lower gastrointestinal bleeding
Author(s) -
Javier Lucas Ramos,
Marta Abadía Barnó,
Álvaro Pezzela Risueño
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista española de enfermedades digestivas/revista española de enfermedades digestivas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 2340-4167
pISSN - 1130-0108
DOI - 10.17235/reed.2019.5973/2018
Subject(s) - medicine , amyloidosis , gastrointestinal bleeding , gastrointestinal disease , lower gastrointestinal bleeding , gastroenterology , refractory (planetary science) , disease , surgery , cancer , colonoscopy , colorectal cancer , physics , astrobiology
Amyloidosis is a chronic multisystem disease that could show multitude of nonspecific symptoms. Gastrointestinal amyloidosis is a very unusual cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding and it does not usually lead the patient to death. We report a case of a 73-year-old woman who presented a severe, refractory lower gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to ileal ulcers due to amyloid deposit.