Severe acute bleeding from portal colopathy controlled by somatostatin: a case report

Trop Gastroenterol. 2004 Jul-Sep;25(3):144-5.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Colonic Diseases / drug therapy*
  • Colonic Diseases / etiology
  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / drug therapy*
  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / etiology
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Portal / complications*
  • Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / complications
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Somatostatin / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Somatostatin