Case Report - (2020) Volume 10, Issue 5
Received: 27-Mar-2020
Published:
13-May-2020
, DOI: 10.37421/2165-7920.2020.10.1342
Citation: Manuella Candido Bastos, Ketlin Batista de Morais Mendes, Cristhiany Ragnini Oliveira, Andre Nazario de Oliveira and Guilherme Eler de Almeida. “Dissecans Esophgitis of Probable Fungal Etiology: A Case Report.” Clin Case Rep 10 (2020): 1342
Copyright: © 2020 Bastos MC, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Dissecting esophagitis is a rare and benign form of chronic esophagitis, of diverse etiology, characterized by a typically whitish mucosa, with or without bleeding and presence of vertical circumferential fissures and cracks at endoscopy. Next, list a case of a young adult individual, who had a diagnosis of EDS with endoscopic diagnosis of EDS with probable cause of infection associated with loss of sub mucosal vascular component. After the diagnosis was made, therapeutic intervention was effectively possible.
Palavras Chave • Chronic Esophagitis • Epigastralgia
Esophagitis Dissecans (EDS) is a rare form of chronic esophagitis, distinguished by typically whitened mucosa with or without bleeding and the feature of cracks and vertical circle. In 1997, Ponsot and his associates suggested the name of “Chronic Esophagitis Dissecans” and ever since, few cases were described in the literature [1]. The clinical history can unfold emetic episodes or regurgitation of the gastro-intestinal substance [2]. EDS is known for being a benign disease which might be associated to drug therapy, just as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, autoimmune dermatoses, inflammatory bowel diseases and idiopathic causes [3], besides infectious agentes as fungus and bacteria that might be observed in biopsies and that might be involved in the disease’s pathogenesis [4]. Currently Upper Digestive Endoscopy (UDE) is the main tool for the early EDS diagnosis. Furthermore, the author reports a case of a young adult individual, previously salutar with no comorbidity who presented na EDS diagnosis within its probable cause associated to the loss of vascular sub mucous component.
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