Abstract Small bowel imaging presents a challenge from the variety of clinical presentations and types disease affecting long organ. Emergency presentation most often involves suspicion obstruction, unexplained acute abdominal pain with or without signs sepsis overt obscure GI bleeding. Conversely non-emergency referrals relate to non-specific constitutional symptoms including weight loss, pati...

Abstract Background Crohn’s disease (CD) can involve the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract as well small and large bowel. PillCam colon capsule endoscopy (PCCE-2) enables observation of whole GI tract, but its diagnostic yield for CD lesions in remains unknown. Aim To elucidate PCCE-2 patients with CD. Methods Patients who underwent double-balloon (DBE) using oral anal approaches were evaluated...

    In this double blind crossover study we assessed the bioequivalence of 200 mg enteric coated sodium valproate tablets manufactured by Roozdarou with 200 mg enteric coated sodium valproate (Orlept) manufactured by Desitin, Germany. Twelve healthy male volunteers were administered a single dose of 600 mg sodium valproate manufactured by Roozdarou, followed by a similar dose of Orlept, 2 weeks...

Aortic graft-enteric fistula is a life-threatening complication of aortic reconstruction surgery. It is a rare condition but its frequency is rising because of an increase of patients who underwent to aortic aneurysm repairs with prosthetic implants. We report a case of a 72 years-old man with a secondary aorto-duodenal fistula. The man presented haematochezia and mild normocytic anaemia; the p...

Introduction: Elective upper and lower GI endoscopy is usually performed in children on an outpatient basis with the child under sedation or general anesthesia (GA). The objective of this study was to describe Anesthesia related complications in   children undergoing elective GI endoscopy.   Materials and Methods: The study design was descriptive on 1388 patients undergoing elective GI endoscop...

Background Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) constitute the most common non epithelial neoplasm that occur within the gastrointestinal tract with a world wide annual incidence of 8-14/million. They are usually located in the upper gastrointestinal tract particularly in the stomach (60%), in the small bowel (30%), esophagus (5%) and rectum (5%). Gist(s) origin from sporadic mutations withi...

We present a case of a patient with a failed pancreaticoduodenal allograft with exocrine enteric-drainage who developed catastrophic gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage. Over the course of a week, she presented with recurrent GI bleeds of obscure etiology. Multiple esophago-gastro-duodenoscopic (EGD) and colonoscopic evaluations failed to reveal the source of the hemorrhage. A capsule endoscopy an...

A 64-year-old man with multiple comorbidities (obesity and metabolic syndrome, dilated cardiomyopathy, type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic renal insufficiency, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, and colonic diverticula) underwent anterior resection for distal rectal cancer with protective ileostomy. A few days later, enteral juice was flowing from surgical drains; an urgent endoscopy with fluorosc...