Case Reports in Clinical Practice (Jul 2023)

Acute Esophageal Necrosis as a Result of Taking Herbal Medicine

  • Narjes Zarei Jalalabadi,
  • Nasim Khajavirad,
  • Samaneh Parsa,
  • Sahar Karimpour Reyhan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18502/crcp.v8i1.13093
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1

Abstract

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Nowadays People use herbal medicines to try to maintain or improve their health but sometimes they cause side-effects and some herbal drug may also interact with medication. We reported a 37 -year-old man who presented to the emergency department with sever watery diarrhea, vomiting, dysphagia, bicytopenia, renal failure and Acute esophageal necrosis, also known as black esophagus which is a rare syndrome characterized by a striking diffuse circumferential black appearance of the esophageal mucosa that universally affects the distal esophagus, 2-days after use of herbal drug named suranjan. Suranjan is a herbal formulation used to treat Rheumatoid arthritis.

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