title: [Acute necrotizing esophagitis].
abstract: Acute necrotizing esophagitis is a rare disease. Its pathogenesis is influenced by situations of low systemic perfusion, such as hypertension, heart failure or sepsis, in which other factors, such as the application of a nasal tube, infections or drugs also play a role. We present a case of acute necrotizing esophagitis in a patient with copious vomiting, renal failure, gastric hemorrhage due to Mallory-Weiss syndrome and esophageal infection due to Actinomyces. The patient was undergoing coadjuvant chemotherapy for a surgically-treated colonic neoplasia. Maintenance therapy produced favorable evolution with restoration of esophageal epithelium and no stenotic complications.
authors.affiliation: Sección de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital del SAS de Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Benítez Roldán
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: López-Cepero Andrada
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amaya Vidal
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Castro Aguilar-Tablada
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Ruiz Campos
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D000328:Adult; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004941:Esophagitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D004947:Esophagus / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy