Esophageal vascular ectasia

Esophageal vascular ectasia.

Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia.

Iron deficiency anaemia secondary to gastrointestinal bleeding is very common in the elderly. Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) syndrome, also known as watermelon stomach is an uncommon but significant cause of acute or chronic gastrointestinal blood loss in the elderly. It is characterised endoscopically by "watermelon stripes." It is more common in females than males, and manifests mostl...

Gastric antral vascular ectasia. A case report.

A case of vascular lesion of angiodysplastic type in the pyloric part of the stomach has been reported in a patient with chronic viral hepatitis. The diagnosis was made from clinical symptoms, endoscopic and histopathologic findings in the specimens obtained during gastroscopy. Many authors emphasize a correlation between the incidence of "gastric antral vascular ectasia" and liver diseases, es...

Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia in Systemic Sclerosis

Gastric antral vascular ectasia is a not so well-understood, and more rare, gastrointestinal manifestation of Systemic Sclerosis which can lead to chronic anemia. A high suspicion and better understanding of this rare manifestation is needed for early detection and treatment. Therapeutic regiments include iron supplementation with acid suppressive therapy, while endoscopic intervention has been...

Nitrous oxide CryoBalloon therapy of refractory gastric antral vascular ectasia.

A 69-year-old man with end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis was referred for persistent gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) that required biweekly transfusions. The patient had undergone four endoscopies and treatment with argon plasma coagulation (APC), with no clinical improvement; he was still requiring blood transfusions. Given that the patient was refractory to APC therapy, he was re...