Inflammatory disease caused by intestinal pathobionts

Inflammatory disease caused by intestinal pathobionts.

Environmental and intrinsic factors that alter microbiota structure can trigger aberrant immune responses. The resulting states of dysbiosis take many forms characterized by overrepresentation of pro-inflammatory organisms and pathobionts and loss of beneficial commensals further aggravating the inflammatory state. The pathogenic potential of the dysbiotic community can be linked to specific or...

Adult Intestinal Intussusception Caused by an Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT), which usually affects young adults and children, is a solid neoplastic mesenchymal proliferation composed of myofibroblastic spindle cells admixed with inflammatory infiltrates. Numerous extrapulmonary sites of these tumors have been found, but intestinal IMT is rare, especially in elderly patient. Its diagnosis is recognized as difficult because the pa...

Adult Ileo-Ileal Intussusception Caused by Intestinal Lipoma

Cutaneous side effects caused by treatment for inflammatory bowel disease.

Treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has significantly changed the shape and efficiency over the last 20 years. Cutaneous lesions could be part of extraintestinal manifestations of these disorders (like erythema nodosum or pyoderma gangrenosum), can occur as consequence of specific vitamin and micronutrient deficiencies (zinc and iron deficiency), or as complications of the drugs that ...

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