Boerhaave Syndrome and Mallory-Weiss Syndrome (MWS) — Diagnosis and Complications

In clinical practice, Boerhaave and Mallory-Weiss syndromes rarely appear. However, you should have these two syndromes in mind when dealing with patients in acute pain or bleeding after an episode of violent vomiting in order to make a correct diagnosis at the crucial moment. Questions about this subject are also likely to be asked in tests. Therefore, medical students should be able to keep these two syndromes apart, particularly their epidemiology and clinical symptoms.