Eosinophilic enteritis is an uncommon disease that rarely develops as a surgical emergency. Although it may be associated with infestation by Ancylostoma caninum, its etiology is unknown and often related to a personal or family history of atopy. A transmural involvement may cause intestinal obstruction--more frequently in the jejunum--or even acute abdomen, which may or may not be accompanied ...

This article examines the evidence for nitric oxide (NO) as a protective agent in splanchnic ischemia-reperfusion and other forms of acute intestinal inflammation. Four major points emerge from this body of data. First, acute intestinal inflammation results in an early (i.e., <5 min) and severe decrease in endothelium-derived NO. Thus the early trigger event in this condition is a functional lo...

Intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a condition in which the intestine's ability to push food through is reduced. It often leads to the dilation of the various parts of the bowel. It can be idiopathic or inherited from a parent, or caused by another disease. We report a rare case of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in a 3-year-old boy who referred with acute abdominal pain, and was lat...

Cirrhosis is associated with altered gastrointestinal function, and bacterial translocation from the gut plays an important role in the etiology of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) seen in this condition. Although alterations in gut motility and intestinal permeability are recognized in cirrhosis, the intestinal damage at the cellular and subcellular levels is not well understood. This s...

Intestinal functions are central to human physiology, health and disease. Options to study these functions with direct relevance to the human condition remain severely limited when using conventional cell cultures, microfluidic systems, organoids, animal surrogates or human studies. To replicate in vitro the tissue architecture and microenvironments of native intestine, we developed a 3D porous...

We are reporting a baby who presented with features of neonatal intestinal obstruction, with an x-ray picture suggestive of hold up at the duodenal level. On laparotomy he had malrotation of the gut which was corrected. He also had a dilated urinary bladder, which later on was treated with vasicostomy. The baby did not move his bowel inspite of no mechanical obstruction and even bypass procedur...

not only aimed at mechanical cleansing of the gastro-intestinal tract from mouth to anus and nasal passages from anterior nares to nasopharynx, but they also helped the performer to develop his gastro-intestinal musculature, together with a certain amount of volitional control of these so called involuntary muscles. With the advent of bacteriology although the conception of disease and its caus...

BACKGROUND Malignant transformation of intestinal endometriosis is a rare event with an unknown rate of incidence. Metachronous progression of endometriosis to adenocarcinoma from two distant intestinal foci happening in the same patient has not been previously reported. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case of metachronic transformation of ileal and rectal endometriosis into an adenocarcinoma...

we report the case of a 54-year-old iranian man who presented with melena from three months prior to admission. esophagogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy were normal. double balloon enteroscopy showed a pedunculated tumor located in the jejunum. he underwent laparotomy and resection of a 9.5 cm tumor from the distal jejunum. histopathologic evaluation confirmed the diagnosis of an inflammatory...

Acute gastroenteritis caused by Salmonella infection is a significant public health problem. Using a mouse model of this condition, the authors demonstrated previously that the cytokine gamma interferon (IFN-g) is required for a normal intestinal inflammatory response to the pathogen. In the present study, these experiments are extended to show that natural killer (NK) cells constitute an early...