Ingestion of gelatinous candy, mimicking acute gastric bleeding

Gastric perforation due to foreign body ingestion mimicking acute cholecystitis.

An 82-year-old man presented with signs and symptoms that were suggestive of acute cholecystitis. He underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. During the intervention, a wooden foreign body was removed from the infiltrated omentum, probably after it had perforated the gastric antrum. The gastric perforation had led to a secondary infection of the gallbladder. The presumed gastric perforation wa...

Management of acute gastric varices bleeding.

Gastroesophageal varices bleeding is a major complication in patients with cirrhosis. Gastric varices (GVs) occur in approximately 20% of patients with portal hypertension. However, GV bleeding develops in only 25% of patients with GV and requires more transfusion and has higher mortality than esophageal variceal (EV) bleeding. The best strategy for managing acute GV bleeding is similar to that...

Management of Acute Gastric Ulcer Bleeding

Acute gastric volvulus and strangulation of colon mimicking chest infection.

CASE HISTORY A 63-year-old farmer presented with left-sided pleuritic pain, cough producing purulent sputum, and vomiting. Examination of the chest revealed diminished respiratory movement, dullness to percussion, coarse inspiratory crepitations and bronchial breath sounds at the left base. He was apyrexial. There was mild epigastric tenderness but no abdominal rigidity, guarding or masses, and...

Acute glycemic and blood lipid response to the ingestion of a candy bar-like protein supplement compared to its candy bar counterpart

Candy bar-like protein supplements are sometimes consumed for their sugar alcohol content, which lowers the glycemic response. The purpose of this study was to determine the acute glycemic and blood lipid response to the ingestion of a candy bar-like protein supplement compared with its candy bar counterpart. In a crossover design, 5 males and 5 females (N = 10; age, 24 ± 5.5 years; height, 174...