1 Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 9, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland 2 Institute of Functional Genomic, INSERM 661, CNRS 5203, Montpellier 1 and 2 Universities, Montpellier, France 3 Lille 2 University and European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID) FR 3508, University of Lille Nord de France, CNRS-UMR 8199, Lille, Fr...

A rare human case of gastroenteritis and eosinophilic ascites associated with gastric trichuriasis is described. The patient was a 32-yr-old woman who was working in a farm near Pohang, Korea. She complained of abdominal pain, diarrhea, and vomiting. Endoscopic examination found focal linear hyperemia on the mucosa of the stomach antrum, and endoscopic biopsy confirmed eosinophilic inflammation...

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE) is a rare disease characterized by focal or diffuse eosinophilic infiltration of the gastrointestinal tract, especially the stomach and duodenum. EGE has vague, nonspecific symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, ascites, and malabsorption. Here, we report a patient with EGE presenting with concurrent acute pancreatitis and...

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is an uncommon condition that is characterized by infiltration of the gastrointestinal tract by eosinophils. We report the case of a 24-year-old woman who presented 4 episodes of eosinophilic gastroenteritis. Skin prick tests and patch tests with different allergens were all negative. The patient's eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) level was very high. Given that on...

BACKGROUND Few studies have assessed the incidence of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) in childhood. The study aim is to determine the incidence of EoE in pediatric patients submitted to upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (UGE), with analysis of epidemiological data regarding sex, age, symptomatology, the frequency of atopy and endoscopic and histological findings. METHODS A retrospective, observ...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor is a rare tumor which arises from the whole gastrointestinal tracts and most of it is detected in the stomach. It is uncommon with small intestine originated gastrointestinal stromal tumor and more uncommon with lymphatic metastasis. We experienced an unusual case of the small bowel gastrointestinal stromal tumor during experimental autopsy. Two primary tumors wit...

INTRODUCTION Eosinophilic fasciitis is an uncommon disorder with unknown etiology and a poorly understood pathogenesis. We present the cases of two patients with eosinophilic fasciitis with unusual presentation, and describe the clinical characteristics and laboratory findings related to them. CASE PRESENTATION The first case involves a 29-year-old Turkish man admitted with pain, edema and in...

Acute eosinophilic myocarditis is a rare disorder characterized by diffuse or focal myocardial inflammation with eosinophilic infiltration. Early treatment can reduce its mortality. Here we report the case of a 64-year-old-man with a previous history of asthma and chronic eosinophilic pneumonia who was admitted to the cardiology department complaining of atypical chest pain and flu-like illness...

INTRODUCTION Eosinophilic esophagitis was first reported in 1978, and since then it has been increasingly recognized as one of the major etiologies for dysphagia, food impaction, and food regurgitation. To the best of our knowledge, no case of eosinophilic esophagitis (excluding esophageal eosinophilia not responsive to proton pump inhibitor treatment) has previously been demonstrated on the ba...

The current issue of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology includes two papers about children and adolescents with eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases, or EGIDs. Each paper addresses key behavioral and psychological aspects of pediatric EGIDs. The first paper, by Taft and colleagues, characterizes caregiver stress in the parents of children with EGIDs and describes the relationships between th...