Acute esophageal necrosis as a result of taking herbal Medicine

narjes zarei jalalabadi; nasim khajavirad; Samaneh parsa; sahar karimpour reyhan

doi:10.18502/crcp.v8i1.13093

narjes zarei jalalabadi Department Internal medicine, Imam Khomeini Hospital complexs,Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
nasim khajavirad Department Internal medicine, Imam Khomeini Hospital complexs,Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Samaneh parsa Department Internal medicine, Imam Khomeini Hospital complexs,Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
sahar karimpour reyhan Department Endocrinology, Imam khomeini Hospital complexs, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran .

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/crcp.v8i1.13093

Keywords: Herbal; suranjan; acute esophageal necrosis

Abstract

Nowadays People use herbal medicines to try to maintain or improve their health but sometimes they cause side-effects and Some herbal drug may also interact with medication. We reported a 37 -year-old man who presented to the emergency department with sever watery diarrhea, vomiting, dysphagia, bicytopenia, renal failure and Acute esophageal necrosis, also known as black esophagus which is a rare syndrome characterized by a striking diffuse circumferential black appearance of the esophageal mucosa that universally affects the distal esophagus, 2-days after use of herbal drug named suranjan . Suranjan is a herbal formulation used to treat Rheumatoid arthritis