Medical Management of Heyde Syndrome

Heyde syndrome: gastrointestinal bleeding and aortic stenosis.

Aortic Valve Replacement for the Management of Heyde Syndrome: A Case Report.

Heyde syndrome describes the triad of aortic stenosis, acquired coagulopathy, and anemia due to bleeding from intestinal angiodysplasia. An 87-year-old man with iron deficiency anemia due to melena was admitted to our hospital. On examination, a systolic murmur was heard and echocardiography confirmed the presence of aortic stenosis. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy were unremarkable....

Medical management of hepatorenal syndrome.

Association of APOL1 variants with mild kidney disease in the first-degree relatives of African American patients with non-diabetic end-stage renal disease. et al. Genome-wide association scan for diabetic nephropathy susceptibility genes in type 1 diabetes. Sir, We have read with great interest the manuscript from Davenport et al. [1], concerning the medical management of patients with hepator...

Medical management of Marfan syndrome.

Marfan syndrome is an autosomal dominant, multisystem disease characterized by long bone overgrowth and other skeletal abnormalities, dislocation of the ocular lens, pneumothorax, decreased skeletal muscle mass, mitral valve prolapse, and dilatation of the aortic root. Antoine BernardJean Marfan first described the syndrome in 1896 in a young patient with peculiarly long and thin digits (subseq...

The medical management of Cushing's syndrome.

Cushing's syndrome results from prolonged exposure to excessive circulating glucocorticosteroids, and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. While the treatment of choice in most patients is surgical, the metabolic consequences of the syndrome, including increased tissue fragility, poor wound healing, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus, increase the risks of such surgery. The ...