A Rare Cause of Gastric Variceal Bleeding

Yesenia Ramos; Dorina Gui; Eric Chak

doi:10.1159/000521126

Case Reports in Gastroenterology (Dec 2021)

A Rare Cause of Gastric Variceal Bleeding

Yesenia Ramos,
Dorina Gui,
Eric Chak

Affiliations

Yesenia Ramos: Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
Dorina Gui: Department of Pathology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
Eric Chak: ORCiD; Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000521126
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15, no. 3
pp. 1008 – 1012

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A 68-year-old woman with stage III colon cancer status after right hemicolectomy and adjuvant FOLFOX (5-fluorouracil/leucovorin/oxaliplatin) chemotherapy was hospitalized for melena and found to have new-onset esophageal and gastric varices on esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Her workup did not reveal an underlying liver disease, but her liver biopsy showed noncirrhotic portal hypertension from obliterative portal venopathy (OPV). The development of OPV is likely from her use of oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy.

Published in Case Reports in Gastroenterology

ISSN: 1662-0631 (Online)
Publisher: Karger Publishers
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology
Website: http://www.karger.com/crg

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