| Literature DB >> 26134364 |
Jeremy Ong1, David Yeung2, Robin Filshie3, Timothy P Hughes2,4,5, Harshal Nandurkar3.
Abstract
Imatinib is generally well tolerated, but gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) remains a rare but significant complication of imatinib therapy. Whilst this complication has been described in other disease settings, only one other case of GAVE has been reported in a chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) patient receiving imatinib. Herein, we present three CML patients with GAVE complicating imatinib therapy. In all cases, GAVE resolved only with cessation of imatinib. This confirms a causal relationship between GAVE and imatinib. GAVE should be considered as a possible cause of anaemia and upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients receiving imatinib therapy.Entities:
Keywords: Chronic myeloid leukaemia; Gastric antral vascular ectasia; Imatinib; Tyrosine kinase inhibitor
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26134364 DOI: 10.1007/s12185-015-1824-y
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Hematol ISSN: 0925-5710 Impact factor: 2.490