Successful Treatment of Small Intestinal Bleeding in a Crohn's Patient with Noncirrhotic Portal Hypertension by Transjugular Portosystemic Shunt Placement and Infliximab Treatment

Small intestinal bleeding in Crohn's disease patients with noncirrhotic portal hypertension and partial portal and superior mesenteric vein thrombosis is a life-threatening event. Here, a case is reported in which treatment with azathioprine may have resulted in nodular regenerative hyperplasia...

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Published in:Case Rep Gastroenterol
Main Authors: Heimgartner, Benjamin, Dawson, Heather, De Gottardi, Andrea, Wiest, Reiner, Niess, Jan Hendrik
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: S. Karger AG 2016
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Single Case
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121555/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27920646
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000450541
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