Recurrent haematochezia in an 85-year-old man with hepatocellular carcinoma

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Recurrent haematochezia in an 85-year-old man with hepatocellular carcinoma
المؤلفون: Shweta Sharma, Steven Nicolaides, Amanda Nicoll, Ola Niewiadomski
المصدر: BMJ Case Rep
بيانات النشر: BMJ Publishing Group, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
مصطلحات موضوعية: Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Lower gastrointestinal bleeding, Cirrhosis, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular, Radiation Colitis, Colon, medicine.medical_treatment, Biopsy, Colonoscopy, Argon plasma coagulation, Case Report, Radiosurgery, Gastroenterology, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Radiation Injuries, Aged, 80 and over, medicine.diagnostic_test, Argon Plasma Coagulation, business.industry, Liver Neoplasms, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Colitis, digestive system diseases, Radiation therapy, Hepatocellular carcinoma, 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology, Steatohepatitis, business, Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage, Tomography, X-Ray Computed
الوصف: An 85-year-old man with Child-Pugh A cirrhosis secondary to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis presented to casualty with four days of painless haematochezia with dark blood without haemodynamic compromise. This was in the setting of receiving stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) as treatment for his hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).He was found to have haemorrhagic radiation colitis which was treated with argon plasma coagulation (APC). Our case demonstrates the importance of considering radiation induced colitis as a cause for painless lower gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with a background of radiation therapy for HCC. Earlier review of the imaging and consideration of this differential could have prevented the need for repeat hospitalisations and would have led to prompt colonoscopy and diagnosis.
اللغة: English
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::28d0570187adaf96a00dbfbcdc263002
https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7789451/
Rights: OPEN
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....28d0570187adaf96a00dbfbcdc263002
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE