Gastric Polyposis: A Rare Cause of Iron Deficiency Anemia in a Patient With Portal Hypertension.

ACG Case Rep J

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.

Published: January 2015

Portal hypertension leading to gastric polyposis has rarely been reported. More common gastric manifestations of portal hypertension are portal hypertensive gastropathy and gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE). We report a case of a patient in whom portal hypertension manifested as bleeding gastric polyps leading to transfusion-dependent iron deficiency anemia.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4435367PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2015.14DOI Listing

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