Colon involvement in patients with severe acute or chronic pancreatitis have been seen, and complications such as paralytic ileus, segmental necrosis, pancreaticocolonic fistulas were reported. However, mechanical obstruction of the colon due to is very rare. We report a case transverse 43-year-old male, non-biliary necrotizing pancreatitis. Trial conservative management failed emergency laparo...

Myocardial ischemia has, for many decades, been viewed as an all-or-none process that causes myocardial necrosis when prolonged and severe, but whose effects are transient when it is brief or mild. In view of the evidence that the ischemic process may "hit, run and stun," perhaps our thinking about the consequences of myocardial ischemia should be expanded. According to this formulation, an isc...