Year 2016 / Volume 108 / Number 3
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Acute oesophageal necrosis (black oesophagus)

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Ignasi Galtés, María Ángeles Gallego, Raquel Esgueva, Carles Martin-Fumadó,

Abstract
A 54-year-old man was admitted to hospital after being found unconscious in his home. He had a history of alcoholism, multiple drug addictions, and type I diabetes mellitus. At admission, he had hyperglycaemia (550 mg/dL) with glucosuria and ketone bodies in the urine, along with septic shock refractory to bilateral alveolar infiltrates and severe respiratory failure. The patient died 24 hours post admission due to multiple organ failure, with diabetic ketoacidosis decompensated by possible respiratory infection in a patient with polytoxicomania. The autopsy confirmed the presence of acute bilateral bronchopneumonia, chronic pancreatitis, severe hepatic steatosis, and generalized congestive changes. At the oesophagus, acute oesophageal necrosis was evident
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Received: 09/03/2015

Accepted: 13/03/2015

Published: 26/02/2016

Article revision time: 2 days

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