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Aphagia following esophageal variceal ligation
Afagia post banding esofágico
Andrés Wonaga
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, Carolina Ozollo-Landa, María Marta Piskorz, Carlos Waldbaum, Juan Sordá
Division of Gastroenterology, Hospital de Clínicas José de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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so the next day a follow-up endoscopy was performed observing a circumferential ulcer and stricture formation&#44; which was gently passed with the endoscope &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>B&#41;&#46; She was discharged from hospital and a month later the study was repeated with no residual lesion&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">EVL complications are at a rate lower than 15&#37; and include&#58; ulcers&#44; transient dysphagia&#44; chest pain&#44; bleeding&#44; stricture formation and infections&#46; The first case of aphagia after an EVL was reported by Saltzman and Arora in 1993&#46; The aphagia was not caused by a unique band&#44; but by the newly banded varices that completely obstructed the esophageal lumen&#46; The obstruction was resolved by pushing away the bands with an endoscope twenty-four hours after the procedure&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> So far&#44; we have found four cases published like ours&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6&#8211;9</span></a> Saftoiu et al&#46; reported the first case&#46; Forty-eight hours after the ligation&#44; they observed the obstruction and managed to unblock the esophagus pushing softly&#46; In a similar case&#44; Verma et al&#46; repeated the endoscopy without trying to dislodge the obstruction&#46; They adopted a wait-and-see approach and a week later the patient could eat food&#46; Nikoloff et al&#46; do not suggest performing the endoscopy owing to a bleeding risk but they recommend contrast swallow studies and watchful waiting until their patient could swallow liquids&#46; In their case&#44; the patient was able to swallow liquids seven days after the ligation&#46; Chahal et al&#46; performed an endoscopy using forceps to unblock the obstruction&#46; However&#44; they had to stop the procedure due to a small amount of bleeding&#46; In our case&#44; 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