The present study was aimed to develop and optimize the microsponges of curcumin for colon specific drug delivery in a view to bypass the upper gastrointestinal tract (GIT) for enhanced therapeutic effect. Microsponges were developed by quasi emulsion solvent diffusion method using 3(2) full factorial design. Prepared microsponges were optimized in order to analyze the effects of independent va...

Introduction: We present the first reported case of a primary ileocolic fistula occurring in an 89year-old male. Case Report: The patient presented with abdominal pain and massive hematochezia. Subsequent radioimaging revealed an aneurysm of the right common iliac densely adherent to the sigmoid colon. A left to right femorofemoral bypass between the proximal right common femoral artery to the ...

Surgical procedures probably result in a temporary state of immunosuppression. Identification of functional lymphocyte subclasses using appropriate monoclonal antibodies appears to serve as a sensitive, accurate, and reproducible measure of immune status in patients in many disease states. Using monoclonal antibodies specific for lymphocyte surface markers and immunofluorescent assay, we quanti...

Materials and methods During a 7 year period from October 2000 to April 2007, 84 symptomatic carotid stenosis were treated at Department of general surgery of AUO “Federico II” of Naples 48 with CAS and 36 with CEA. We divided our patients in two group not randomly but according to valuation anesthesia. The age range in this group was 80 to 89 years (average age of 82.7 years). The indication f...

this article describes coronary artery bypass grafting by avlliath jay akrishnan et al. one of the most common reason for coronary artery bypass grafting is narrowing coronary arteries because of atherosclerosis. atherosclerosis causes chest pain (angina pectoris), myocardial infarction and sudden death. the aim of coronary artery bypass grafting is to release pain, prevention of myocardial inf...

An Eighty-three-year-old woman diagnosed with slowly progressive insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes mellitus due to high serum level of anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody underwent coronary artery bypass grafting. She had abdominal pain and died 5 days after the operation. At autopsy, we found dissection of the right coronary artery, acute myocardial ischemia at the posterior septal wal...

CASE REPORT The case of a breast cancer patient with a progressive increase of CA 19.9 that indicated gastrointestinal metastasis is reported. After the observation of an increased CA 19.9 serum value (104.00; n.v. 0.0-37.00) a colonoscopy was performed. This examination showed the presence of an erythematous and granular zone near the ileocecal valve. Histological examination of biopsies taken...

Background: Arteriovenous malformations are one of the most common vascular disorders of the colon. Vascular disorders present as painless, high-volume rectal bleeding. Case Presentation: This study elucidates two rare cases of vascular disorders that are diagnosed as angiodysplasia of the left colon and cavernous hemangioma of the colon and rectum.  The chief complaint in two patients ...

actinomycosis is a rare and chronic infectious disease caused by a non-spore gram- positive, anaerobic bacterium that rarely infects the colon, in particular the left colon. a 53-year-old woman was referred to us due to chronic abdominal pain, bloating, a few episodes of bloody-mucous rectal discharge, and  change of bowel habits. her medical history and physical examination were unremarkable. ...