PMID- 31355025
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20200930
IS  - 2090-6625 (Print)
IS  - 2090-6633 (Electronic)
VI  - 2019
DP  - 2019
TI  - First Case of Esophagitis Dissecans Superficialis in an HIV Patient: A Case 
      Report and Literature Review.
PG  - 4616937
LID - 10.1155/2019/4616937 [doi]
LID - 4616937
AB  - Esophagitis dissecans superficialis (EDS), a rare desquamative esophageal disease 
      of uncertain etiology, is characterized by sloughing of fragments of esophageal 
      mucosa. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no reported case of EDS in 
      an HIV-infected patient. We report the first case of EDS in an adult HIV-infected 
      male, who was hospitalized due to dysphagia. Esophagogastroscopy was performed, 
      and the endoscopic findings together with the histopathologic findings of 
      esophageal tissues were consistent with EDS. However, his symptom of dysphagia 
      was not explained by EDS, but was the early symptoms of muscle-specific kinase 
      (MuSK) myasthenia gravis (MG) that we finally diagnosed later by progression of 
      the symptoms and electrophysiologic study. His symptoms had gradually improved 
      after a course of intravenous immunoglobulin treatment. This is the first case of 
      EDS and MuSK myasthenia gravis in an HIV-infected patient. A high index of 
      suspicion of EDS should be made when taking care of the patients with 
      desquamative or sloughing esophagitis especially with unknown etiology.
FAU - Prasoppokakorn, Thaninee
AU  - Prasoppokakorn T
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1012-9874
AD  - Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 
      Thailand.
FAU - Panarat, Palakorn
AU  - Panarat P
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5937-4048
AD  - Department of Medicine, Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital, Chonburi, 
      Thailand.
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
DEP - 20190702
PL  - Egypt
TA  - Case Rep Infect Dis
JT  - Case reports in infectious diseases
JID - 101573243
PMC - PMC6636498
EDAT- 2019/07/30 06:00
MHDA- 2019/07/30 06:01
PMCR- 2019/07/02
CRDT- 2019/07/30 06:00
PHST- 2019/04/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/05/27 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/06/13 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/07/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/07/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/07/30 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2019/07/02 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1155/2019/4616937 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Case Rep Infect Dis. 2019 Jul 2;2019:4616937. doi: 10.1155/2019/4616937. 
      eCollection 2019.