The clinical and laboratory findings of 290 cases of bloody diarrhea who presented to the department of Diarrhea Training and Treatment between June 1998 and May 2002 were investigated, and compared to those of two consecutive cases who had watery diarrhea. The bloody diarrhea group had higher mean age, higher frequencies of diarrhea, lower frequencies of vomiting, and shorter durations of diar...

Abstract Background Colorectal anastomosis using the double stapling technique (DST) has become a standard procedure. However, DST is difficult to perform in patients with anal stenosis because circular stapler cannot be inserted into rectum through anus. Thus, an alternative procedure required for colorectal anastomosis. Case presentation A 78-year-old woman presented bloody stool. Colonoscopy...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE It has been suggested that mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) is involved in cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage. The present study was undertaken to explore the inhibitory effect of U0126, a novel MAPK inhibitor, in the contraction of the rabbit basilar artery by 3 spasmogens: hemolysate, oxyhemoglobin, and bloody cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from patients...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical and laboratory data of children with acute gastroenteritis caused by non-typhoid Salmonella spp. infections. Clinical (demographic data, symptoms and findings) and laboratory data (stool microscopy, rapid antigen tests, culture, multiplex polymerase chain reaction and blood test results) of children with acute gastroenteritis caused by non-...

Abstract Background Gastrointestinal illness is a major cause of morbidity in travellers and common reason for presentation to healthcare services on return. Whilst the aetiology imported gastrointestinal disease predominantly infectious, outcomes are variable due range phenomena such as post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome, drug resistance occult pathology (both infectious non-infectious)....

STUDY OBJECTIVES The decrease in incidence of tuberculosis, along with the increase in invasive cardiovascular procedures, may have changed the frequency of causes of bloody pericardial effusion associated with cardiac tamponade, although this is not yet recognized by medical textbooks. We analyzed the causes of bloody pericardial effusion in the clinical setting of cardiac tamponade in the 199...