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He vomited so much that he sustained a full-thickness rupture of his esophagus called Boerhaave syndrome. The tear itself will cause pain and bleeding, but it gets worse. Undigested food ...

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She needed the procedure because her failing liver was causing varices — dilated veins — in her esophagus that threatened to ...

She needed the procedure because her failing liver was causing varices — dilated veins — in her esophagus that threatened to rupture. Megan had to get regular endoscopies to band the veins.

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The preliminary autopsy indicated Poppell’s death was likely because of an upper gastrointestinal bleed from an esophageal tear that resulted from vomiting in the setting of substance withdrawal.