The Mallory-Weiss syndrome and lesion

Spontaneaous linear gastric tears in a cat

“…, Dagradi et al . ). The aim of this report is to describe the spontaneous formation of linear gastric tears during gastroscopy in a cat with concurrent atrophic gastritis and Helicobacter pylori infection.…”

Endoscopic ligation for patients with active bleeding Mallory-Weiss tears

“…A MWT may occur spontaneuosly, but it usually is associated with retching or vomiting for any reason, such as heavy alcohol use, blunt abdominal trauma, staining at stool, cough, asthma, hiccups, heavy lifting, or seizures [3,6,9]. As many as 30% of patients report recent use of aspirin or NSAIDs.…”

The Mallory-Weiss Syndrome

“…The new instruments provide circumferential views of the lumen and the maneuvrability of the distal end allows careful examination of the mucosa. With the older instruments gastroscopy was more successful than oesophagoscopy for the identification of mucosal tears (Dagradi et al, 1966;Jones, 1969;Palmer, 1970). In our experience with fibre-endoscopes the forward-viewing instruments are far superior to the side-viewing Olympus GFB gastroscope for examination of the gastro-oesophageal junction.…”

“…More recently, however, reports of cases have raised the possibility that the syndrome might not be so uncommon (Atkinson et al, 1961;Dobbins, 1963;Freeark et al, 1964;Dagradi et al, 1966;Homes, 1966), and in series where early endoscopy has been used routinely in the investigation of haematemesis and melaena the incidence has been found to be 2-0% (Katz et al, 1965), 2-7% (Jones, 1969), 5-1% (Palmer, 1970), and 4-7% (Pitcher, 1972). An incidence of 14-7% was reported in the United States army and veteran patients (Wells, 1967), but there was an unduly high proportion of alcoholics in this group.…”