The 2019 Coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) has spread to over two hundred countries worldwide, affecting > 170 million people and causing >3,500,000 deaths (May 29, 2021). Severe COVID-19 disease mostly disturbs the respiratory system, but gastrointestinal symptoms, including vomiting, nausea and diarrhea, are also present. Herein, we are reporting a COVID-19 patient with acute pancreatit...

Crohn's disease is associated with increased permeability of the intestine even in quiescent patients. Increased intestinal permeability may cause dysregulated immunological responses in the intestinal mucosa that leads to chronic intestinal inflammation. Tight junction proteins contribute to intestinal permeability, and functional abnormality and dislocation of such proteins may cause increase...

OBJECTIVE To describe the case of an infant with Hirschsprung's disease presenting as total colonic aganglionosis, which, after surgical resection of the aganglionic segment persisted with irreversible functional intestinal obstruction; discuss the difficulties in managing this form of congenital aganglionosis and discuss a plausible pathogenetic mechanism for this case. CASE DESCRIPTION The ...

We report a case of a young female patient with long-standing oral and genital Behçet's disease (BD), who presented with progressive severe colonic inflammation and perforation, requiring multiple laparotomies. The case had ultimately a favourable outcome despite posing a number of diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Intestinal complications, although rare, should be considered as important ...

Crohn's disease (CD) is a disease with chronic inflammation of unknown etiology involving any part of the gastrointestinal tract. The incidence and prevalence of CD are increasing recently in Asia. Half of the CD patients will have intestinal complications, such as strictures or fistulas, within 20 years after diagnosis. Twenty-five percentage of CD patients have had at least one small bowel st...

WATANABE, H., HIWATASHI, N. and GOTO, Y. Biopsy under Direct Vision for the Diagnosis of Crohn's Disease. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1979, 129 (1), 1-8-In order to clarify the role of biopsy in distinguishing Crohn's disease from intestinal tuberculosis before surgery, the histologic findings of the biopsy specimens from 8 cases of Crohn's disease were investigated in comparison with those from 19 ca...

Fibrocystic disease of the pancreas in the newborn infant is usually recognized by the development of intestinal obstruction as a result of meconium ileus (Andersen, 1938). According to Bodian (1952), a certain number of infants affected by fibrocystic disease develop severe intestinal lesions during intrauterine life. The abnormal consistence of the mucus produced in the alimentary tract cause...

SUMMARY hydatic cyst is a serious disease of man. That cause by a worm called taenia echinocococus, the adult worm lives in small bowel of dog and other canine host. The dog is the usual definitive host of this parasite and is important for transmition of this disease. In this study a total of 283 stray dags Teheran country were investigated for the present of intestinal metazoan parasites. T...

• To understand the nature and pathophysiology of the different types of intestinal failure and short bowel syndrome; • To appreciate the need for restriction of salt-poor fluids in patients with short bowel syndrome; • To have an understanding of the pharmacological and nutritional therapy of short bowel syndrome; • To be able to apply this understanding in clinical practice; • To know the pro...