Heparin therapy for mistaken cardiac diagnosis in Boerhaave′s syndrome
| Author(s) : | Anand Joshi Abraham Philip Desai Devendra Vyas Harin, |
| Publisher : | N/A |
| Publication Date : | 2004 |
| ISSN : | N/A |
| Abstract : | We describe two patients with Boerhaave′s syndrome who presented with chest pain mimicking cardiac pain and received heparin therapy. One patient developed large intramural esophageal hematoma as a complication of heparin therapy. The other patient had no hematoma and his course was dominated by esophageal rupture. Both were managed conservatively., |