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Case Reports
. 2020 Mar;21(1):59-61.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajg.2020.01.006. Epub 2020 Feb 19.

Plummer-Vinson Syndrome in a Crohn's disease patient

Nikolaos Kyriakos  1 , Apostolis Papaefthymiou  1 , Marios Giakoumis  1 , Michail Papadomichelakis  1 , Christos Liatsos  2
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Plummer-Vinson Syndrome in a Crohn's disease patient

Nikolaos Kyriakos et al. Arab J Gastroenterol. 2020 Mar.

Abstract

Plummer Vinson Syndrome (PVS), a rare condition complicating iron deficiency anaemia, manifests as a classic triad of dysphagia, anaemia and oesophageal web. Iron deficiency is the commonest systematic complication of Crohn's disease with only one described case of a Crohn's disease patient combined with PVS in the literature. We present a case of PVS complicating Crohn's disease in a 38-years-old female patient under treatment with the biologic agent Ustekinumab (human interleukin 12/23 monoclonal antibody) suffering from a progressively worsening dysphagia.

Keywords: Crohn’s disease; Iron deficiency anaemia; Plummer Vinson Syndrome.

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