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Pneumatosis Intestinalis in Patient with Relapsing Polychondritis
Si-Ho Kim, So Ree Kim, Jiyu Kim, Heejung Kim, Sung Won Park, Jinmyeong Oh and Hyemin Jeong*Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- *Corresponding Author:
- Hyemin Jeong
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine
Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine,
06351, 81 Irwon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Tel: 82234103439
Fax: 82234103849
E-mail: fly707@gmail.com
Received date: June 08, 2017; Accepted date: June 15, 2017; Published date: June 22, 2017
Citation: Kim SH, Kim SR, Kim J, Kim H, Park SW, et al. (2017) Pneumatosis Intestinalis in Patient with Relapsing Polychondritis. J Gastrointest Dig Syst 7:511. doi:10.4172/2161-069X.1000511
Copyright: © 2017 Kim SH, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Relapsing polychondritis (RP) predominantly involves cartilaginous structures, but systemic vasculitis is also associated with RP. A 44-year-old man with RP visited the emergency department for incidentally detected free air in a chest X-ray. He was diagnosed with pneumotosis intestinalis (PI). PI is rare disease in which gas forms between the bowel walls. He was successfully treated with bowel rest and empirical antibiotics. This paper reports a case of PI in a RP patient.
