crohn's disease is a type of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) of unknown etiology that may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus and shows extra-intestinal involvement. it characteristically shows skip lesions. this case report reported in 2014 describes a middle age pakistani male known to have documented evidence of significant crohn's disease since past 18 ...

in this case report we will describe a rare association between anhyrotic ectodermal dysplasia (aed) and immunodeficiency and autoimmunity [in our case: idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (itp) and crohn disease]. aed is a rare congenital disorder characterized by sparse hair, abnormal teeth and anhidrosis due to lack of eccrine glands. the survey of 87 cases with (aed) revealed only one irrit...

ménétrier's disease is a rare cause of hypertrophic gastropathy that is usually confined to the gastric body and fundus. it is characterized by giant rugae, hypoalbuminemia, and foveolar hyperplasia. here we report the case of a 26-year-old woman who presented with epigastric pain, postparandial nausea-vomiting, and weight loss. paraclinic evaluation revealed hypoalbuminemia and hypochromic mic...

background : patients with alzheimer's disease (ad) reportedly hibit hypersensitivity to much diluted tropicam solution (0.005%), a m4 muscarinic receptor antagonist. therefore aocular application of 0.005% tropicamide ma be useful for screening dementia. the aim of this study was to simplify the pupil response test by using a new image analyzing system, which consists of a cheap, simple, and e...

background postoperative relapse is a common feature of crohn's disease (cd) in western countries but its frequency and risk factors have not been studied in the middle east where there is a rapid upsurge in the incidence of cd. this study aims to research the frequency and risk factors of its recurrence after surgery among 566 iranian patients with cd in tehran, iran. methods all 566 patients ...

takayasu's arteritis and crohn's disease co morbidity seems to be rare. to our knowledge, no patient with crohn - takayasu syndrome has been reported yet from our region. herein we present a 22 year old iranian woman previously diagnosed with crohn's disease with subsequent development of takayasu's arteritis.