Effect of Corticosteroid Therapy in Esophageal Stricture of a Child with Chronic Granulomatous Disease

In chronic granulomatous disease (cgd) patients, esophageal stricture is a rare complicationand the treatment of choice is still controversial. there are few reports of successfultherapy with antibiotics, corticosteroids, multiple balloon dilatations or their combination.we report a 3-three-year-old iranian boy with recurrent esophageal obstruction due tocgd. the patient transiently responded to dilatation in one occasion and at another time toshort term steroid therapy. we observed an excellent response when long term and highdose of corticosteroid was administered.it showed that a long term and high dose steroid therapy is more effective than a shortterm in a patient with cgd and esophageal stricture.