@article{3117091,
    title = "Severe gastrointestinal involvement in systemic sclerosis",
    author = "Plastiras, Sotiris C. and Tzivras, Michael and Vlachoyiannopoulos, and Panayiotis G.",
    journal = "Bailliere's Clinical Rheumatology",
    year = "2007",
    volume = "26",
    number = "6",
    pages = "1025-1026",
    publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
    issn = "0950-3579",
    doi = "10.1007/s10067-006-0264-8",
    keywords = "scleroderma",
    abstract = "Gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is the most common organ system involved in
systemic sclerosis (SSc). GIT involvement is mainly attributed to GIT
dismobility and wide mouth diverticular. GIT involvement in SSc can be
also severely debilitating and even life threatening. To our knowledge,
the presence of gastrointestinal bleeding due to the presence of
multiple peptic ulcers in scleroderma patients is not well described. In
this case report, we describe a scleroderma patient with recurrent
gastrointestinal bleeding due to multiple peptic ulcers, in which
vagotomy, pyloroplasty, and cholocystectomy were performed and
subcutaneous somatostatin was administered to discontinue the recurrent
bleeding and stabilize her clinical condition."
}