Severe acute bleeding from portal colopathy controlled by somatostatin: a case report.
Portal hypertensive colopathy (PHC) is a recently described entity in patients with portal hypertension which can cause even life-threatening lower gastrointestinal bleeding. In contrast to variceal bleed, there is no standardized treatment for the control of bleeding from these lesions. We report a case of alcoholic cirrhosis with portal hypertension, in whom bleeding from colonic angiodysplasia-like lesions was effectively controlled by somatostatin infusion.
Rana
S S
SS
Department of Gastroenterology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical education and research (PGIMER), Chandigarh.
Dutta
U
U
Sinha
S K
SK
Kochhar
R
R
Nagi
B
B
Bhasin
D K
DK
D000208:Acute Disease; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000150:complications*; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D013004:Somatostatin