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TL;DR
This case report describes a 17-year-old male with daily vaping history who presented with severe odynophagia and was diagnosed with severe erosive esophagitis after other causes were excluded.
JPGN Reports · 2 authors, 2 centres
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This case report describes a 17-year-old male with daily vaping history who presented with severe odynophagia and was diagnosed with severe erosive esophagitis after other causes were excluded.
This is a case report of an otherwise healthy 17-year-old male who presented with odynophagia, dysphagia, and fever after a history of daily vaping. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed severe, circumferential erosive esophagitis throughout the esophagus, with biopsy showing acute inflammation and tissue necrosis but no viral inclusions. The patient had a concurrent Helicobacter pylori infection. He was treated with supportive care, pain management, and quadruple therapy for H. pylori. He was counseled to cease vaping and reported symptom resolution at follow-up. The authors conclude that vaping-associated esophagitis is a rare complication that should be considered in the differential diagnosis when other causes are excluded. The primary limitation is that this is a single, uncontrolled case report, which cannot establish causation, only a temporal association.