Gastric neuroendocrine tumour, atrophic gastritis and autoimmune haemolytic anaemia : a case report and review

Gastric neuroendocrine tumours are rare. We describe a unique case of a 66-year-old male patient who presented with shortness of breath and malaise, eventually attributed to severe autoimmune haemolysis in the context of atrophic gastritis and multiple type-1 gastric neuroendocrine tumours. The patient had also positive anti-cardiolipin antibodies. A favourable outcome was attained with corticosteroids plus subtotal gastrectomy for the treatment of the underlying neoplastic disease. This case illustrates that the differential diagnosis of any associated causes of autoimmune haemolytic anaemia can be challenging, and may extend to unexpected conditions.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:64

Enthalten in:

Scottish medical journal - 64(2019), 4 vom: 02. Nov., Seite 154-158

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Papakonstantinou, Ilias P [VerfasserIn]
Karakousis, Nikolaos D [VerfasserIn]
Andreadis, Emmanouel A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-cardiolipin antibodies
Atrophic gastritis
Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia
Case Reports
Gastric neuroendocrine
Journal Article
Review
Type-1 gastric carcinoid

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Date Completed 27.04.2020

Date Revised 27.04.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/0036933019867574

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM300139306