Aim. To improve the results of surgical treatment for patients with non-neoplastic colonic diseases by optimizing choice radical surgery extent. Materials and methods. The study material was analysis interventions performed in 87 diseases: ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, familial adenomatous polyposis, chronic coloproctogenic stasis, diverticular colon disease. age operated 20–72 years. Th...

OBJECTIVE To scrutinize all colonic biopsies and document the prevalence and pattern of various colonic diseases amongst the patients presenting at a tertiary care hospital of Western Saudi Arabia. METHODS We examined the record of all colonic biopsies, processed at Histopathology Department of King Abdul Aziz University Hospital; Jeddah from January 2002 to July 2007. RESULTS The colonic b...

conclusions previous abdominal surgery, including previous colonic surgery, confers no added risk of conversion to an open operation, morbidity or mortality for patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal surgery. the operative time however is longer (30 minutes) for patients with previous colonic surgery. results out of 718 patients 476 had no previous abdominal surgery (group a), whilst 190 p...

Inguinal hernia and colonic neoplasm are usual diseases. However, colonic neoplasm occurring in an inguinal hernia sac is rare. Pre-operation diagnosis and appropriate surgical intervention in these patients remain a technical challenge for surgeon. Clinicians must have a high index of suspicion for these cases and early management can ensure excellent prognosis. In this article, we report a ca...

Many patients suffer from chronic gastrointestinal diseases characterized by chronic inflammation, increased intestinal permeability and visceral pain in which there is no definitive treatment. Adult stem cells have recently been used in various disease states to contribute wound-healing processes. In the current study we investigated the ability of intra-colonic adult stem cells application to...

The effects of octreotide on regional motor function in the human gut are unclear. In a randomised, blinded study the effects of octreotide (50 micrograms, subcutaneously, three times daily) and placebo on gastric, small bowel, and colonic transit, and colonic motility and tone were assessed in 12 healthy volunteers whose colon had been cleansed. Octreotide accelerated initial gastric emptying ...

Background/Aims After exclusion of structural diseases, chronic constipation may be associated with normal or slow transit or rectal evacuation disorders. We evaluated: (1) clinical features and anorectal function, (2) difference of regional colonic transit according to the presence or absence of evacuation disorders, and (3) association of colonic transit with gender in patients with objective...

Excessive intake of saturated fatty acids and/or linoleic acid favors the induction of an array of lipid mediators and cytokines enhancing inflammatory responses. Conversely, dietary supplementation with (n-3) fatty acids or vitamin D ameliorates inflammation and autoimmune diseases. Although it was well accepted that conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) prevented diseases with a common inflammatory ...