{"id":3297,"date":"2017-01-03T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/?guid=8eb45afb0b52d62e782f099b56b5a370"},"modified":"2017-01-03T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:00:00","slug":"a-rare-cause-of-massive-gastrointestinal-bleeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/2017\/01\/a-rare-cause-of-massive-gastrointestinal-bleeding\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rare Cause of Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question: A 50-year-old male patient with squamous cell carcinoma and a previous esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealing a stenotic and infiltrative lesion at 21 to 30 cm from the incisors was admitted with history of intermittent upper gastrointestinal bleeding for the last 6 days, presenting as hematemesis and melena (Figure A). A computed tomography scan demonstrated a luminal narrowing of the esophagus at the middle third, with air and fluid in the proximal esophagus, which was mildly dilated (Figure B).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: A 50-year-old male patient with squamous cell carcinoma and a previous esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealing a stenotic and infiltrative lesion at 21 to 30 cm from the incisors was admitted with history of intermittent upper gastrointestinal b&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/2017\/01\/a-rare-cause-of-massive-gastrointestinal-bleeding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5910,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}