Eosinophilic gastroenteritis with abdominal pain and ascites:A case report

作     者：Xiao-Qing Tian Xiang Chen Sheng-Liang Chen 

作者机构：Department of GastroenterologyRenji HospitalSchool of MedicineShanghai Jiao Tong UniversityShanghai 200001China 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Clinical Cases》 (世界临床病例杂志)

年 卷 期：2021年第9卷第17期

页      面：4238-4243页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Eosinophilic gastroenteritis Abdominal pain Ascites Endoscopy Prednisone Case report 

摘      要：BACKGROUND Eosinophilic gastroenteritis(EGE)is a rare disease that presents many unspecific gastroenterological *** disease includes three types depending on the depth of eosinophil infiltration in the gastrointestinal *** serosal type is the most rare,presenting as *** SUMMARY A 34-year-old man presented with abdominal pain,diarrhea without bloody stool,or *** test results revealed a peripheral blood eosinophil count(4.85×10^(9)/L),which was remarkedly *** tomography scan demonstrated extensive intestinal wall edema thickening in the duodenum,jejunum,ascending colon and transverse colon;multiple exudative effusion surrounding the intestinal tract,and ascites in the abdominal cavity.A series of examinations excluded eosinophil elevation in secondary *** multipoint biopsy detected eosinophilic infiltration in the mucous layer of the transverse colon,with≥50 eosinophils/high power *** symptoms vanished after a few days of steroid therapy and ascites disappeared within 2 *** EGE should be considered in patients with abdominal pain,ascites,and *** point biopsies are essential for diagnosis.