Year 2021 / Volume 113 / Number 6
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Severe respiratory failure secondary to megaesophagus due to terminal achalasia

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2020.7672/2020

David Ortiz López, María Asunción Acosta Mérida, María del Mar Callejón Cara, Joaquín Marchena Gómez,

Abstract
We present the case of a 56-year-old male diagnosed with achalasia ten years previously without follow-up. He presented with fever, dysphonia and dyspnea associated with a constitutional syndrome of one month of evolution. Laboratory tests showed leucocytosis of 15,870/ul. The chest radiography confirmed mediastinal widening and a chest computed tomography (CT) showed full esophageal dilation up to 10 cm compressing the trachea and right main bronchus, with tapering at the esophagogastric junction.
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Publication history

Received: 21/11/2020

Accepted: 29/11/2020

Online First: 04/01/2021

Published: 04/06/2021

Article revision time: 3 days

Article Online First time: 44 days

Article editing time: 195 days


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