Endoscopic snare polypectomy for bleeding postinflammatory polyps.
We describe a patient with ulcerative colitis and protracted rectal bleeding who had required several blood transfusions and who was unresponsive to medical therapy, whose symptoms resolved after endoscopic resection of multiple giant postinflammatory polyps. This case report highlights the fact that postinflammatory polyps can occasionally cause significant symptoms, such as rectal bleeding, and that in these circumstances careful endoscopic polypectomy can be performed safely and result in a significant improvement in symptoms over a prolonged period of follow-up.
Rutter
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Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy, St Mark's Hospital, Watford Road, Harrow HA1 3UJ, UK. ruttermatt@hotmail.com
Saunders
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Emmanuel
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Price
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D000328:Adult; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications*; D003111:Colonic Polyps / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D003113:Colonoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome