Purpose: It was aimed to convey the experiences of endoscopy performed by a single surgeon in district hospital. Material and Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 784 patients who underwent endoscopic procedures same between February 2015 2018 general surgery unit Çorum Alaca State Hospital. Results: Endoscopy (upper GIS endoscopy) 585 cases included study, colonoscopy (lower 199 them. Of endo...

BACKGROUND Autoantibodies to tryptophan hydroxylase (TPHAbs) directed against serotonin-producing enterochromaffin cells (EC) have been reported in autoimmune-polyendocrine-syndrome type 1 (APS-1) patients with gastrointestinal dysfunction (GID). Serotonin plays a critical role in enteric function and its peripheral blood levels reflect serotonin release from the gastrointestinal tract. AIMS ...

The myenteric plexus of the enteric nervous system controls the movement of smooth muscles in the gastrointestinal system. They extend their axons between two peripheral smooth muscle layers to form a tubular meshwork arborizing the gut wall. How a tubular axonal meshwork becomes established without invading centrally toward the gut epithelium has not been addressed. We provide evidence here th...

A 58-year-old man with esophageal cancer underwent a transhiatal esophagectomy and presented to the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) with progressively worsening shortness of breath 14 days after his surgery. The patient was found to have a left empyema, possibly from an anastomotic leak, and underwent a left video-assisted thoracotomy (VATS) decortication and empyema drainage, and endoscopi...

aim : to compare the conventional gi endoscopy and using general anesthesia during the procedure regarding the satisfaction and acceptance among iranian patients. background : ability to measure and assess the patients’ satisfaction with colonoscopy and upper endoscopy will improve the quality of health care provided by gastroenterologists and thus resulting in better acceptability of endoscopy...

background: endoscopy of the upper gastrointestinal tract is the most accurate method for the diagnosis of most disease conditions associated with dyspepsia. however, endoscopy involves some discomfort, significant social inconvenience, and cost. attempts to identify those patients most likely to benefit from endoscopy have met with variable success. to evaluate endoscopic findings of the upper...

grave’s disease is a clinical syndrome consisting of hypermetabolism, diffuse thyroid enlargement and exophthalmos. which has ocular complications. due to the high incidence of these complications and the risk of blindness special attention is needed. many therapeutic methods including medical surgical and radiotherapy for ocular complications are suggested. in cases of medical therapy failure,...

upper endoscopy is a common procedure for the diagnosis and treatment of upper digestive tract diseases. the increasing number of pediatric gastrointestinal procedures has led to increasing attention on the safety and efficacy of medications used for sedation during the procedure. this randomized blinded interventional study was designed to compare the effect of oral midazolam with intravenous ...

background : giardia lamblia and helicobacter pylori are two flagellate microorganisms that grow in duodenum and stom­ach. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of them in patients with dyspepsia and other gi disorders. methods: in this cross-sectional study, co-infection of above-mentioned agents was investigated in a group of 130 patients [me­dian age of 40 yr (range=11-79) inc...

retained surgical gauze is occasionally observed in general practice. herein, we report a case with surgical gauze retained for over 13 years that created a fistula which drained pus into the stomach.