Ménétrier disease manifested by polyposis and involved in both the small bowel and entire colon: A Case Report.
BACKGROUND
Ménétrier disease (MD) is rare that is involved in both the small bowel and entire colon.
We describe a case of a 76-year-old male patient whose clinical presentations include intermittent diarrhea, epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting, asitia, and weight loss. An endoscopy was performed showing a large number of irregular forms and different sizes of polypoid lesions in the gastrointestinal tract, which is rare for MD.
Herein, this case was diagnosed as MD, mainly dependent on endoscopic evaluation, typical clinical symptoms, and histopathological examination of biopsy. As this patient was also infected with Helicobacter pylori, the eradication of H pylori was administered. Meanwhile, a high-protein diet was enjoined, the aforementioned patient's symptoms were alleviated evidently after 1 month.


CONCLUSIONS
Although the etiology of MD remained undetermined, we showed that eradication of H pylori in this case might contribute to the disease remission. This study enlarged the present understanding of MD.
Department of Gastroenterology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
Qiang
Q
Ding
Panpan
P
Lu
Shuping
S
Ding
Yuhui
Y
Fan
Wei
W
Yan
Ying
Y
Wang
Dean
D
Tian
Yujia
Y
Xia
Mei
M
Liu
D011125:Adenomatous Polyposis Coli / Q000209:etiology; D000368:Aged; D005758:Gastritis, Hypertrophic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male