Long Survival after Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a New-Onset Heyde’s Syndrome Patient Treated with Multiple Endoscopic Hemostatic Procedures and Repeated Transfusions after Aortic Valve Replacement

Heyde’s syndrome, which is caused by aortic stenosis and subsequent acquired von Willebrand factor deficiency, is a gastrointestinal bleeding disease. Gastrointestinal bleeding develops in patients with Heyde’s syndrome, which may have a different prognosis from general gastrointestinal bleeding; th...

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Main Authors: Genso Notoya, Ryota Niikura, Atsuo Yamada, Masanori Ochi, Takashi Kawai, Kazuhiko Koike
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2021-09-01
Series:Case Reports in Gastroenterology
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Online Access:https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/519004