The vascular malformations represent one of the main causes of lower gastrointestinal bleeding in elderly patients. The incidence of the disease in patients with less than thirty years is a rare described event. The objective of the present report is to show a case of angiodysplasia, located in the cecum region, in-patient on his third decade of life, revealed by preoperative selective angiography and confirmed by histopathological study. Men, 29th years old, presented complaining a chronic anemia of obscure origin for several years and refractory to the clinical and transfusion therapy. With the objective to investigate a possible digestive origin he was submitted to the abdominal selective angiography that demonstrated the presence of vascular malformation located in the cecum. A right colectomy was done and then it was possible to confirm the localization of the disease for postoperative angiography of surgical specimen and the diagnosis of angiodysplasia for the anatomopathologic study. After surgical procedure presented favorable evolution, being currently in the 5th postoperative month without presenting signals of anemia. Despite of an uncommon possibility the presence of angiodysplasia has to be always considered in the clinical investigation of anemia of obscure cause in young patients.
Angiodysplasia; Arteriovenous malformations; Cecal Diseases; Cecum; Colorectal Surgery; Colon
