OBJECTIVE To document the frequency at diagnosis and evolution over time of inflammatory bowel disease-unclassified in children. METHODS Analysis of case records (2004-2011) of patients diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease-unclassified following upper-gastrointestinal endoscopy, ileocolonoscopy and small bowel imaging. Any subsequent diagnostic reclassification by 2016 was recorded. RE...

Inflammatory bowel diseases are idiopathic inflammatory diseases of two main types, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Crohn's disease can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract, and the distal ileum is involved in up to 70% of patients. Moreover, Crohn's disease in one-quarter to one-third of patients involves isolation of the small bowel. Due to the nonspecific symptoms and anatomical ...

Internal hernia represents only a small fraction of the patients with intestinal obstruction, however 50% of paraduodenal hernia present as an acute intestinal obstruction. The case is a 28-year old man with presentation of complete bowel obstruction. Diagnosis confirmed through physical examination and abdominal radiography. Laparatomy was performed during which total herniation of small intes...

Bidirectional sodium flux across the intestinal mucosa was measured in a group of 10 patients with Crohn's disease treated in the past by panproctocolectomy with ileostomy and compared with a similarly treated group of 11 patients with ulcerative colitis. All of them were in good health at the time of the study and a recent radiological examination of the small intestine was normal. A significa...

NABEYAMA, A. and OGATA, T. Cytological Studies on the Eaterochrounafin Cells in the Intestinal Metaplasia. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1971, 105 (4),355-363 The enterochromaffin cells (Ec-cells) in the normal and pathological antral mucosa of the human stomach were examined. It was clarified that the Ec-cells are observed only in the mucosa with intestinal metaplasia, and never in the normal mucosa. W...

A peptic ulcer is an erosion in a segment of the gastro intestinal mucosa, typically in the stomach (gastric ulcer) or first few centimeters of duodenum (duodenal ulcer) that penetrates through the muscularis mucosae. Contrary to popular belief, ulcer is not caused by spicy food but instead is most commonly due to either an infection or long term use of medications. Standard treatment is a comb...

Objective(s): To investigate the efficacy of interleukin 11 (IL-11) towards the high dose methotrexate (HDMTX)-concurrent rat small intestinal mucositis and its impacts on the proliferation of the human T-lymphoblastic leukemia (CEM) cell line. Materials and Methods:95 Wistar rats were randomly divided into five groups, the normal control group (A), the methotrexate (MTX) control group (B), th...

The susceptibility of healed, experimental gastric ulcers to chemical carcinogenesis was investigated. Slowly healing gastric ulcers were induced by the acetic acid method in the fundic and pyloric gastric mucosae of inbred male Wistar rats. N-Methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) was administered in drinking water at a concentration of 50 mg/liter for 360 days after ulcer induction. Twenty...

AIMS To determine the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in five main nationality groups with gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, and non-ulcer dyspepsia; and to determine the histopathological types of gastritis and assess the graded variables of Helicobacter associated gastritis. METHODS Gastric antral and corpus biopsy specimens from 437 patients were examined for the prevalence of H pylori, 337...

INTRODUCTION Timely diagnosis of primary HIV infection is important to prevent further transmission of HIV. Primary HIV infection may take place without symptoms or may be associated with fever, pharyngitis or headache. Sometimes, the clinical presentation includes aseptic meningitis or cutaneous lesions. Intestinal ulceration due to opportunistic pathogens (cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus,...