Abstract
Abstract
Background
Upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is a severe acute disease of gastroenterology department. Fish bone is the most common food-related foreign body. However, fish bone piercing the esophagus, causing the mediastinal abscess that corroded the left subclavian artery, resulting delayed but high-risk massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding is very rare.
Case presentation
We report a 54-year-old man who was diagnosed with delayed but high-risk massive upper GI bleeding that was the result of a fish bone piercing the esophagus, causing a mediastinal abscess that corroded the left subclavian artery. He was saved effectively by early and timely multidisciplinary collaboration.
Conclusion
A fish bone-caused mediastinal abscess that corrodes the left subclavian artery and induces delayed but high-risk massive upper GI bleeding is very rare. In addition to routine consideration of upper GI bleeding, medical history, endoscopy and CT are helpful for achieving a diagnosis. Importantly, early and timely multidisciplinary collaboration can effectively save critically ill patients.
Funder
Guizhou Province Science and Technology Plan
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Guizhou Province Science Plan Program
Cultivation of high-level innovative talents in Guizhou Province ["Thousand" level]
15851 Talent Projects of Zunyi City
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Gastroenterology,General Medicine
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