Rare Diseases Symptoms Automatic Extraction

Sixteen-year follow-up of Barrett's esophagus, endoscopically treated with argon plasma coagulation.

[esophageal adenocarcinoma]

The thermal destruction of non-dysplastic Barrett's esophagus (BE) and its replacement by squamous epithelium is an attractive, but unproven strategy to avoid further development of dysplasia or cancer. The goal of this study was to estimate the persistence of restoration of squamous epithelium and the risk of cancer in BE that was eradicated using argon plasma coagulation (APC) in the absence of high-grade dysplasia, 16 years after its application.We followed 32 patients with BE who underwent eradication of metaplastic epithelium using APC, up to 16 years later.At the end of the initial treatment, 25 of 32 patients (78%) had complete endoscopic eradication, there was partial squamous re-epithelialization in four patients (13%) and it was absent in three patients (9%). We observed buried metaplastic glands under new squamous epithelium in 6 of the 25 patients who had complete endoscopic eradication. At follow-up, sustained complete endoscopic eradication was observed in 16 of 32 patients (50%), partial eradication in 11 of 32 patients (35%); there were two patients (6%) lost to follow-up and three patients (9%) developed esophageal adenocarcinoma. Two of the latest cases arose from the buried glands under neosquamous epithelium after complete eradication and one arose from a small remaining Barrett's segment.We observed long-term re-epithelialization in the majority of patients who had previously had complete eradication of Barrett's esophagus. This did not provide protection against cancer development, as the incidence of cancers arising from buried glands or from residual Barrett's esophagus was similar to that observed in patients undergoing no specific treatment.

Diseases presenting "cancer" symptom

  • achondroplasia
  • acute rheumatic fever
  • adrenal incidentaloma
  • alpha-thalassemia
  • benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis
  • cadasil
  • canavan disease
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • cholangiocarcinoma
  • coats disease
  • congenital adrenal hyperplasia
  • congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • cowden syndrome
  • cushing syndrome
  • cutaneous mastocytosis
  • dedifferentiated liposarcoma
  • dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
  • epidermolysis bullosa simplex
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • erythropoietic protoporphyria
  • esophageal adenocarcinoma
  • esophageal carcinoma
  • esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
  • familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
  • familial mediterranean fever
  • gm1 gangliosidosis
  • heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
  • hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis
  • hirschsprung disease
  • hodgkin lymphoma, classical
  • inclusion body myositis
  • junctional epidermolysis bullosa
  • kabuki syndrome
  • kallmann syndrome
  • kindler syndrome
  • lamellar ichthyosis
  • liposarcoma
  • locked-in syndrome
  • lymphangioleiomyomatosis
  • monosomy 21
  • neuralgic amyotrophy
  • oculocutaneous albinism
  • oligodontia
  • oral submucous fibrosis
  • papillon-lefèvre syndrome
  • pendred syndrome
  • pleomorphic liposarcoma
  • primary effusion lymphoma
  • proteus syndrome
  • pyomyositis
  • pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency
  • severe combined immunodeficiency
  • sneddon syndrome
  • systemic capillary leak syndrome
  • triple a syndrome
  • von hippel-lindau disease
  • waldenström macroglobulinemia
  • well-differentiated liposarcoma
  • werner syndrome
  • wiskott-aldrich syndrome
  • wolf-hirschhorn syndrome
  • x-linked adrenoleukodystrophy

This symptom has already been validated