Year 2025 / Volume 117 / Number 4
Letter
Blue esophagus as a diagnosis of aortic dissection

224-225

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10319/2024

María Reyes Busta Nistal, Lourdes del Olmo Martínez, Luis Fernández Salazar,

Abstract
A 76-year-old patient, admitted to the department of cardiac surgery, anticoagulated, started with acute dysphagia. An upper endoscopy revealed a blue mucosa from the upper to distal esophagus, with narrowing of the lumen caused by an extrinsic compression. A computed to¬mography (CT) of the thorax was performed, showing a 85x55 mm mediastinal hematoma causing extrinsic compression of the esophagus. Subsequently, a contrast-enhanced CT scan was performed, confirming a contained rupture of descending thoracic aortic dissection as the cause of the hematoma.
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Publication history

Received: 03/02/2024

Accepted: 14/03/2024

Online First: 09/04/2024

Published: 03/04/2025

Article Online First time: 66 days

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