Caustic Digestive Lesions in Adults: Epidemiological, Endoscopic and Therapeutic Aspects at Idrissa Pouye General Hospital (Dakar, Senegal)

Abstract

Journal of clinical gastroenterology is part of the Juniper publishers which is devoted to publish subject-specific articles focused on the needs of individual research communities across all areas of biology and medicine. Ingestion of caustic products is a diagnostic and therapeutic emergency. Its severity is related to the risk of death and digestive functional sequelae. Common in children, following accidental ingestion, many studies have been devoted to it in the pediatric environment. However, data on adult populations are rare in our context. The aim of this work was to describe the profile of patients hospitalized for caustic ingestion, the context of occurrence, the endoscopic lesions observed, their evolution and their therapeutic modalities.