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ArticleCureus2023

Isolated Proximal Black Esophagus in a COVID-19 Patient.

Nishant Aggarwal, Rabin Neupane, Unnati Bhatia, Ankur Singla, Ketan Rana

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Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nishant AggarwalInternal Medicine, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, USA.
Rabin NeupaneGastroenterology and Hepatology, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, USA.
Unnati BhatiaInternal Medicine, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, USA.
Ankur SinglaInternal Medicine, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, IND.
Ketan RanaGastroenterology and Hepatology, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, USA.
Dayanand Medical College & Hospital · INBeaumont Health · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Black esophagus or acute esophageal necrosis (AEN) is a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal (UGI) bleeding usually involving distal esophagus. Proximal esophageal involvement is quite rare. We present an 86-year-old female with active coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection who came in with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation and was started on anticoagulation. She subsequently developed a UGI bleed, which was complicated by inpatient cardiac arrest. Following resuscitation and stabilization, UGI endoscopy showed circumferential black discoloration of proximal esophagus, with distal esophageal sparing. Conservative management was instituted and fortunately, repeat UGI endoscopy two weeks later showed improvement. This describes the first case of isolated proximal AEN in a COVID-19 patient.

Indexed as

cardiac arrestesophageal necrosishistopathology examinationupper endoscopyupper gastro-intestinal bleed

Identifiers

PMID37073182
PMCPMC10106278
OpenAlexW4327709815

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