Intestinal Dysmotility Syndromes following Systemic Infection by Flaviviruses

Hirschsprung's disease - Postsurgical intestinal dysmotility

OBJECTIVE To describe the case of an infant with Hirschsprung's disease presenting as total colonic aganglionosis, which, after surgical resection of the aganglionic segment persisted with irreversible functional intestinal obstruction; discuss the difficulties in managing this form of congenital aganglionosis and discuss a plausible pathogenetic mechanism for this case. CASE DESCRIPTION The ...

Ileostomy Prolapse in Children with Intestinal Dysmotility

BACKGROUND A relationship between intestinal motility and ileostomy prolapse has been suggested but not demonstrated objectively. AIMS This study evaluated the association between ileostomy prolapse and intestinal dysmotility in children. METHODS IRB-approved retrospective review of 163 patients with ileostomies (1998-2014) at a single institution. Patients were categorized as having clinic...

Erythromycin in neonatal postoperative intestinal dysmotility.

The motilin agonist erythromycin was used successfully in four infants receiving prolonged parenteral nutrition for severe intestinal dysmotility after gastrointestinal surgery. In a further child with a neuropathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction erythromycin induced a striking small intestinal manometric response, but was without effect in a child with an intestinal myopathy.

Pathogenesis of intestinal and systemic rotavirus infection.

A rare intestinal infection with systemic effects.

Randy S. Longman, MD, PhD1 Roger K. Moreira, MD2 Dan R. Littman, MD, PhD4 Peter H. R. Green, MD3 Amrita Sethi, MD1 1Department of Digestive and Liver Diseases, 2Department of Pathology, 3Celiac Disease Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York; 4The Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York Uni...