Resumen

GALLO ARRIAGA, Benjamín et al. Dieulafoy’s rectal injury: A rare but potentially fatal cause of lower GI bleeding. Acta méd. Grupo Ángeles [online]. 2020, vol.18, n.3, pp.302-305.  Epub 31-Mayo-2022. ISSN 1870-7203.  https://doi.org/10.35366/95409.

Gastrointestinal bleeding is a frequent disease in consultation and in the emergency room which has very different etiologies. Dieulafouy’s lesion, described for the first time in 1898 is one of the rarest but potentially mortal lesion because of its diagnostic difficulty. We present the case of an 81 year old male patient who arrived to the hospital with a right inferior lobar pneumonia, bacterial endocarditis, acute chronic renal failure and autoimmune thrombocytopenia. During the hospital evolution the patient started with gastrointestinal bleeding that produced an hypovolemic shock twice, during the second colonoscopy in the colonoscope extraction approximately at 12 cm from the anal margin we found an aberrant arterial vessel with active bleeding. We performed hemostasis with diluted adrenalin 1:10,000 and with application of two endoclips with the complete resolution of the bleeding. The patient recovered from the hypovolemic shock with no signs of a new bleeding; nevertheless, he died two weeks after the bleeding event with a multiple organic failure secondary to another pneumonia.

Palabras llave : Gastrointestinal bleeding; Dieulafoy; rectum; endoscopy.