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. 1988 Sep;29(9):1282–1285. doi: 10.1136/gut.29.9.1282

Near fatal eosinophilic gastroenteritis responding to oral sodium chromoglycate.

R J Moots 1, P Prouse 1, J M Gumpel 1
PMCID: PMC1434366  PMID: 3143628

Abstract

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EG) is an uncommon disorder, characterised by cramping abdominal pain, diarrhoea and vomiting and histologically by eosinophilic infiltration of bowel wall. We present a patient who developed EG during the course of a systemic, necrotising vasculitis, who became critically ill after failure of treatment with corticosteroids and cytotoxic drugs and responded only to oral sodium chromoglycate.

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