small bowel pigmentation

Small bowel pigmentation

Question A 73-year-old male, referred by his GP with dyspepsia unresponsive to proton pump inhibitors. His past medical history included COPD, ischemic heart disease, Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) investigated with colonoscopy and a colonic polyp removed 2012. In the absence of a clear treatable condition behind his IDA, his low Iron was treated with Iron supplement Ferrous Sulphate. His curren...

Practical Lessons from the Small Bowel Bleeding Lesions: A Case Report on Small Bowel Cavernous Hemangioma

Complicated Jejunal Diverticulosis: Small Bowel Volvulus with Obstruction

he incidence of the diverticulum of the small bowel varies from 0.2-1.3% in autopsy studies to 2.3% when assessed on enteroclysis. It occurs mostly in patients in the 6th decade of their life. Of all the small bowel diverticuli, jejunal diverticulum is the most common type. This rare entity is usually asymptomatic. However, they may cause chronic non-specific symptoms for a long period of time ...

Adhesive small bowel obstruction: where do we stand now?

Adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO) is one of the most frequently encountered disorders in Emergency Surgery Departments worldwide without negligible hospital admission rates and social costs (1,2). Notwithstanding significant improvements in techniques and materials, intra-abdominal adhesions following abdominal surgery still represent a major unsolved and debated issue harbouring challeng...

Cadaveric small bowel and small bowel-liver transplantation in humans.

Five patients had complete cadaveric small bowel transplants under FK506 immunosuppression, one as an isolated graft and the other 4 in continuity with a liver. Three were children and two were adults. The five patients are living 2-13 months posttransplantation with complete alimentation by the intestine. The typical postoperative course was stormy, with sluggish resumption of gastrointestinal...

Small Bowel Hamartoma: A Huge Diverticulum of Small Bowel

A-20-year old male, with no significant medical history, presented with clinical features mimicking a perforated acute appendicitis. Because of features of peritonitis, a laparotomy was performed which showed a segment of small bowel with multiple large diverticula and mesenteric cysts. A segmental small bowel resection was performed. The patient made an uneventful recovery from surgery. Histol...