Hematochezia in a Child With Heiner Syndrome.

Front Pediatr

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Shanghai Children's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

Published: January 2020

Heiner syndrome (HS) is a food hypersensitivity disease that is mostly caused by cow's milk. The main features may include chronic or recurrent respiratory syndromes, pulmonary infiltrates on radiography, and even pulmonary hemosiderosis. However, gastrointestinal symptoms are rare in HS, which can lead to a misdiagnosis when the chief complaint is about the gastrointestinal system. Here, we report a case of HS complicated by severe hematochezia.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6997471PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2019.00551DOI Listing

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