Quintero Alvaro M, Gaviria María E, Balparda Jon K, Cuervo Héctor R
Department of cardiology, Clínica Cardiovascular, Medellín, Colombia.
Cases J. 2009 Dec 21;2:9368. doi: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-9368.
Esophagic Intramural Hematoma is an uncommon clinical condition, with a prognosis which is essentially benign. On most cases, a predisposing or precipitating factor may be seen, with the most common ones being the history of esophagic instrumentation, food impactations and thrombocytopenia. In the following manuscript, the authors present the case of a 54-years-old male with history of valve replacement surgery, who was treated at the Clinica Cardiovascular (Medellin, Colombia), with a clinical case of Intramural Esophagic Hematoma that was later confirmed to be due to a Coumarinic overanticoagulation. On this case, it is evidenced that Intramural Esophagic Hematoma is an unrecognized complication of Courmarinic anticoagulation therapy.