Mallory-Weiss Syndrome

Abstract

SINCE the original descriptions of gastrointestinal hemorrhage caused by cardioesophageal lacerations induced by vomiting, presented by Mallory and Weiss1 , 2 more than twenty years ago, there have been no further reports of this syndrome. Several large series of gastrointestinal bleeding recently studied from a clinical standpoint3 4 5 6 7 make no mention of this syndrome as a cause for hematemesis. Of 101 patients with fatal gastrointestinal hemorrhage who were recently examined at autopsy in this laboratory, cardioesophageal lacerations accounted for 3 deaths.8 Since the last report of Weiss and Mallory from this hospital, at least 11 cases of gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to cardioesophageal lacerations . . .