Pires, Pedro and Costa, Inês and Raposo, Alexandra (2018) You Can’t Heyde Forever. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 5 (9). ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Heyde’s syndrome describes an association between aortic stenosis and a predisposition to bleeding from intestinal angiodysplasia resulting from acquired von Willebrand disease. We present the case of an 82-year-old woman with recurrent intestinal bleeding, severe anaemia and secondary myocardial infarction. Investigation identified ileal angiectasia as the source of haemorrhage. As echocardiography revealed severe aortic stenosis the patient underwent surgical valve replacement. At her 3-month follow-up, the patient reported no new bleeding episodes and her functional status had improved. This case highlights Heyde’s syndrome, an entity probably underdiagnosed despite the high prevalence of aortic stenosis and intestinal angiodysplasia in elderly patients.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Aortic stenosis, intestinal angiodysplasia, Heyde’s syndrome, acquired von Willebrand disease |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Greta Di Blasio |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jun 2019 10:54 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jun 2019 10:54 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/18767 |
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