Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome: Complications

The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by Zollinger-Ellison syndrome:

Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (E00-E90).

Mouth, esophagus (food pipe), stomach and intestines (K00-K67; K90-K93).

  • Bleeding of an ulcer – gastric ulcers (ulcus ventriculi) and duodenal ulcers (ulcus duodeni), sometimes in the jejunum (atypical localization).
  • Dysbiosis (imbalance of the intestinal flora).
  • Esophagitis (inflammation of the esophagus)
  • Perforation of an ulcer – opening of the ulcer.

Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48)

  • Metastatic gastrinoma