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Gripposal esophagitis

Alexey Portnov, medical expert
Last reviewed: 17.10.2021

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Gripposic esophagitis can manifest itself in two forms - mild catarrhal and severe ulcerative-necrotic; they also secrete a paralytic form.

Symptoms of influenza oesophagitis

Gripposis catarrhal esophagitis appears as a mild syndrome in the general clinical picture of influenza infection and differs little from the picture of catarrhal esophagitis described above. There are mild pains in the lower part of the neck and chest, increasing with swallowing. Sometimes there is an eructation of food and mucus that occurs as a result of reflex spasm of the esophagus. With fibrogastroscopy, diffuse hyperemia of the mucosa and areas of spastic contractures are determined.

Evolution of the process proceeds favorably, recovery occurs in 6-10 days.

Gripposis phlegmonous esophagitis is pathomorphologically similar to a similar process that occurs with pyogenic etiology, but it is clinically much more severe, respectively, influenza infection.