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Esophagitis Induced by Doxycycline Treatment

Author(s) -

Engin Şenel,

Firdevs Topal,

Cem Mansuroğlu,

Yasemin Yuyucu Karabulut

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

turkish journal of dermatology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1308-5255

pISSN - 1307-7635

DOI - 10.4274/tdd.1896

Subject(s) - doxycycline , esophagitis , medicine , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , disease , biology , reflux

Esophagitis is the most common disease of the esophagus. Drug use is one of the reasons of chemical esophagitis. Herein, we report two male patients of 17 and 18 years of age who developed esophagitis in acne treatment with doxycycline. Both patients took doxycycline capsules for approximately one week. Ulcerations were detected at upper and mid-esophagus of the 17-year-old patient. Circular ulcerations were found at mid-esophagus of the 18-year-old case. Doxycycline induced esophagitis is a preventable disease with the physician giving appropriate medication ingestion advice to the patient

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