Dieulafoy Lesion In The Rectum: A Case Report

Authors: Soner Onem, Zarni Htway, Ozan Cengiz, Yakup Duran, Farid Hajiyev, Ali Bilgen, Suleyman Dolu

 

Affiliations: Dokuz Eylul University Hospital, Department of Gastroenterology, Izmir, Turkey

*Corresponding author: Soner Onem, Department of Gastroenterology, Dokuz Eylul University School of, Medicine, Äzmir, 35000, Turkey, Email: soneronem@hotmail.com

Citation: Soner Onem (2019) Dieulafoy Lesion In The Rectum: A Case Report. World J Gastroenterol Hepatol Endosc, 2(2);1-3

 

Copyright: © 2019, Soner Onem. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

ABSTRACT

Approximately 20% of gastrointestinal tract bleedings originate from the lower Gastrointestinal Tract (GIT). Although many of these bleedings are spontaneously stop, they cause mortality and morbidity especially in the elderly patient population. The most common causes of lower GIS bleeding are diverticulitis coli and angiodysplasia. Less common causes are ischemic colitis, colon tumors, hemorrhoids and soliter rectal ulcer. Dieulafoy lesion is a large superficial artery underlying a mucosal defect which usually occurs in the proximal stomach. It can cause serious life-threatening GÄ° bleeding and rarely seen in lower GIT. Here we report a 80-years-old male patient who admitted to the emergency department because of bloody stool and diagnosed rectal Dieulafoy lesion treated by endoscopically.

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