A case of gold associated enterocolitis is described. A review of all 27 previously reported cases revealed that the syndrome induced has common characteristics. The reaction occurs within three months of instituting gold therapy, is characterised by profuse diarrhoea and vomiting with abdominal pain, fever, and sometimes eosinophilia. Petechial changes are prominent on endoscopy and the endosc...

Hirschsprung-associated enterocolitis is an infrequent inborn abnormality of the enteric nervous system. Characteristics are the absence of ganglia in both submucosal and myenteric plexuses of the hindgut with a variable proximal extension. This review acknowledge all patients and families regarding the possibility of HAEC occurrence either preand postoperatively and to make them prepare deal w...

Clostridium difficile and enterotoxigenic C. perfringens are significant causes of enterocolitis in horses. Based on detection of specific clostridial toxins in fecal samples, C. difficile was associated with 22% and 17% of cases of colitis in adult horses and foals, respectively. Enterotoxigenic C. perfringens was associated with 19% and 29% of cases in adult horses and foals. Incorporation of...

To demonstrate the pitfalls in the diagnosis of intestinal amoebiasis we describe a case of amoebic enterocolitis with an atypical clinical presentation. In a patient with repeated rectal blood loss and no diarrhea, colonoscopy showed discontinuous ulcerative enterocolitis of the ileocecal region. Because of a high suspicion of Crohn’s disease a recipe of Entocort 9mg daily was handed out to hi...

A 15 year old boy being treated for relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia developed severe diarrhoea and abdominal pain which worsened despite empirical antibiotic treatment. A right hemicolectomy was performed. The caecum and ascending colon showed changes typical of neutropenic enterocolitis. Clostridium tertium was isolated from faeces, blood cultures, and from the resected gut wall, with n...

A case of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) with pathologic evidence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is presented. This preterm infant developed abdominal distention and tachycardia, and a clinical diagnosis of NEC was made. Acute bowel obstruction occurred 20 days later. Biopsy specimens of the ileum obtained during laparotomy showed extensive CMV inclusion bodies and positive immunoperoxidas...