Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is a rare disorder that can present with various gastrointestinal manifestations depending on the specific site and specific layer of the gastrointestinal tract involved. Majority of the cases involve stomach and proximal small bowel. The diagnostic criteria include demonstration of eosinophilic infiltration of bowel wall, lack of evidence of extra intestinal diseas...

A 40-year-old woman referred to the radiology department because of pain in the region of the coccyx. There was no abnormality neither localized tenderness or swelling in the sacrococcygeal region. She had difficulty in defecation but gastrointestinal pathology such as stool test for occult blood was negative. For radiological examination lateral and postero-anterior X-rays and MRI studies were...

Anesthesia providers must take appropriate precautions to reduce the potential for transmission of infectious agents to the patients under their care. The devastating spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) over the past decade has resulted in the development of specific guidelines for the cleaning, disinfection, sterilization, and handling of medical equipment ...

An elderly patient with acute-type ITP is reported. An 89-year-old man was admitted to the Department of Physiatrics, Ureshino-Onsen Hospital on July 19, 1991 and commenced rehabilitation treatment. Laboratory data on January 28, 1992 showed decreased platelets (2.8 x 10(4)/mm3). According to this data, the patient was transferred to the Department of Internal Medicine, where laboratory data sh...

The original occult blood tests were designed for forensic purposes, Schonbein and van Deen using a chemical test with guaiacum which was more sensitive than the older Teichmann's haemin crystal test. Subsequently similar chemical methods were widely used and in I893 Weber described his version of the guaiacum test for detecting occult blood in the faeces. Boas first made extensive use of this ...

A 20-month-old boy presented with a 2-week history of pallor and progressive abdominal distention. Nutritional history revealed long-standing excessive cow milk intake. He was subsequently found to be profoundly iron deficient and hypoproteinemic, with an elevated fecal α-1-antitrypsin level and occult blood positive stool, consistent with protein-losing enteropathy. He was treated with cow mil...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common epithelial malignancy in the world. Since CRC develops slowly from removable precancerous lesions, detection of the lesion at an early stage by regular health examinations can reduce the incidence and mortality of this malignancy. Colonoscopy significantly improves the detection rate of CRC, but the examination is expensive and inconvenient. Ther...

OBJECTIVE Highly sensitive guaiac-based faecal occult blood (Hemoccult SENSA) and Helicobacter pylori stool antigen testing might help detect upper gastrointestinal lesions when appended to a colorectal cancer screening programme with faecal immunochemical testing. We evaluated the diagnostic accuracies of two stool tests in detecting upper gastrointestinal lesions. DESIGN Cross-sectional des...