SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF LOCALIZED EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS WITH A PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR

Abstract

A 44-year-old woman had a two-year history of food impaction. Esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy showed white exudates with fine furrows localized at the esophago-gastric junction. Examination of biopsy specimens showed marked intraepithelial infiltration of eosinophils (50 per high power field) in the esophageal mucosa. She was diagnosed as having localized eosinophilic esophagitis and received rabeprazole for 8 weeks. After treatment, her symptoms as well as endoscopic images and esophageal eosinophil infiltration improved. Here, we presented a patient with localized eosinophilic esophagitis that was successfully treated with a proton pump inhibitor.