A 68-year-old man presented for esophagogastroduodenoscopy with a food impaction. Prior to his food impaction, the patient reported rare heartburn symptoms but no history of regurgitation, dysphagia, nausea, or vomiting. After the food bolus was removed, sloughing esophagitis was seen extending the distal 15 cm of the esophagus to the gastroesophageal junction (Figure 1). Microscopic examinatio...

A 3-day-old baby girl developed septicaemia, meningitis, and necrotising fasciitis due to group A beta-haemolytic streptococcus, type M52, which was also cultured from the mother's cervix. Necrotising fasciitis is a severe infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissues with infarction, necrosis, and sloughing of the affected areas. Early recognition of this condition is essential so that approp...

In this paper 4 patients are described who had bilateral symmetrical confluent retinal swelling followed by apparent necrosis and sloughing of the retina into the vitreous. The disease was accompanied by signs of uveitis and the clinical appearance suggested inflammation rather than infarction as the pathogenic mechanism. No systemic abnormalities were found by which the aetiology could be iden...

background one of the main challenges in skin flap surgery is tissue ischemia and following necrosis. the present study compares the effects of fibroblast growth factors 1 and 2 on increasing cutaneous vasculature, improving ischemia, and preventing distal necrosis in ischemic skin flaps in rat model. methods thirty rats were allocated into 3 groups (n=10) and 2×8 cm dorsal random-pattern skin ...

Gastric pneumatosis is a radiographic finding that represents a spectrum of conditions ranging from benign disease to abdominal sepsis and death. Along with portal venous gas, it is generally considered an ominous sign prompting emergent operative intervention. We report a rare case showing that diagnostic laparoscopy can be used to confirm or refute full thickness ischemic necrosis and that co...

Congenital duodenal obstruction commonly occurs due to malrotation, atresia, stenosis and annular pancreas in decreasing order of frequency. Besides this, duodenal obstruction may occur due to high fixation of duodenojejunal junction or due to hyperfixation bands at duodenojejunal flexure(l-5). We are presenting three cases in which duodenal obstruction occurred in the presence of normally rota...

Fourteen-membered macrolides are known to produce alterations in digestive tract motor activity; these include the induction of strong gastric contractions and a decrease in the motility of the small intestine. The aim of the study was to compare the effects of two different formulations of erythromycin ethylsuccinate (EE) on duodenojejunal motility. Compared with the more commonly used crystal...

syncope followed by melena. She was under oral anticoagulant therapy for atrial fibrillation. An urgent upper endoscopy revealed active oozing of blood from an ulcer crater on the surface of a 3.5-cm, sessile submucosal tumor at the gastric fundus. Endoscopic hemostasis was achieved by epinephrine injection and application of hemoclips (●" Fig. 1). Although surgical gastric wedge resection is c...

objective: morphological changes of ca1 neurons in rat hippocampus after transient and permanent focal cerebral ischemia were studied to clarify the nature of postischemic cell death in the subfield. materials and methods: male adult rats were divided into 3 groups: control (shamoperated), transient ischemic group (30 minutes of mcao followed by 48 hours of reperfusion), and permanent ischemic ...

Gall stones related complications are very common in the world, Bouveret’s syndrome is one of rare (1-3%). presents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. We present case an 80-year-old lady diagnosed with gastric outlet obstruction jejunal impaction gallstones, because gallstone impacted jejunum 50 cm from duodenojejunal flexure. The patient was operated on enterotomy retrieval gall jejunum, ...