Muco-Submucosal Necrosis-Early Novel Complication following Intersphincteric Resections

Polypectomy of a colonic muco-submucosal elongated polyp.

partment for screening colonoscopy. He had no gastrointestinal symptoms. Barium enema revealed a curiously elongated polypoid lesion, 12 cm in length, in the transverse colon (●" Fig. 1). Colonoscopy showed an elongated polyp in the transverse colon with a 4-cm long head (●" Fig. 2a) and an 8-cm long stalk (●" Fig. 2b). As the reddish head of the lesion was clearly visualized after spraying wit...

Familial Occurrence of Enteric Muco-Submucosal Elongated Polyp

We report 2 cases of enteric muco-submucosal elongated polyps (EMSEPs) that presented with gastrointestinal bleeding. The 2 patients are siblings. They both had a history of percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary artery disease and were on dual antiplatelet therapy. They underwent endoscopic resection of the polyps, which displayed identical endoscopic and histological features compati...

Cardiac Complication Following Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Besides its severe neurological injuries, spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) commonly causes cardiac complications. These complications could include three different aspects of cardiac diseases, that is, electrocardiographic abnormalities, myocardial injuries, and left ventricular dysfunction. These complications not only may lead to misdiagnosis of SAH as myocardial infarction, but also...

Gastroparesis following endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer.

chronic disease was referred to our hospital because of progressive abdominal distention and poor appetite in September 2009. He had undergone endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) at our endoscopy center for a large, flat lesion in the gastric incisure 2 months previously. The lesion had been a type IIb with a diameter of 10 cm. It had been resected in one piece and was shown histologically t...

Cutaneous necrosis following brown recluse spider bite