We present a unique presentation of Crohn's disease in a 25-year-old male with a 3-month history of progressive gastric outlet obstruction symptoms including reflux, vomiting, postprandial pain and weight loss, with no other symptoms. Multiple imaging investigations as well as gastroscopic biopsies revealed a non-specific prepyloric lesion, without evidence of malignancy. A distal gastrectomy w...

We report a 48-year-old man in whom a chronic postbulbar duodenal ulcer destroyed much of the back wall of the duodenum and gastroduodenal artery causing pseudoaneurysm. The lesion was found and evaluated by contrast-enhanced computed tomography (that revealed a large pseudoaneurysm of 83 mm × 75 mm in diameter) and by angiography and then treated with transcatheter embolization leading to a co...

Ruptured hepatic artery aneurysm is a rare life-threatening condition. Open surgery with ligation of the aneurysm is the treatment of choice if the patient presents with haemodynamic instability. Controversies exist on whether hepatic artery reconstruction is needed after exclusion of the aneurysm. Involvement of the gastroduodenal artery origin was proposed as an indication for reconstruction,...

This paper was designed to evaluate a novel surgical procedure of using a gastroduodenal artery graft for reconstruction of the hepatic artery during radical resection of hilar cholangiocarcinoma, which is citation-free and self-contained. In this paper we retrospectively analyzed the clinical data, surgical procedure, and follow-up results in nine patients who underwent hepatic artery reconstr...

The percentage of gastroduodenal neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) among all gastroenteropancreatic (GEP) NETs has gradually increased worldwide. Sentinel node navigation surgery (SNNS) has been developed as a personalized approach in the surgical strategy for early gastrointestinal tract cancers. We herein report 2 cases of gastroduodenal NETs treated with SNNS. Technetium-tin colloid including ind...

The common hepatic branch of the vagus nerve negatively regulates lard intake in rats with streptozotocin (STZ)-induced, insulin-dependent diabetes. However, this branch consists of two subbranches: the hepatic branch proper, which serves the liver, and the gastroduodenal branch, which serves the distal stomach, pancreas, and duodenum. The aim of this study was to determine whether the gastrodu...

BACKGROUND Perforated gastroduodenal ulcer carries a high mortality rate. Need for reintervention after surgical repair is associated with worse outcome, but knowledge on risk factors for reintervention is limited. The aim was to identify prognostic risk factors for reintervention after perforated gastroduodenal ulcer in a nationwide cohort. METHODS All patients treated surgically for perfora...

To investigate the distribution and origin of alpha-smooth muscle actin (ASMA)-positive stromal cells in the perforation of human gastroduodenal ulcers. Perforative lesions of 24 surgically resected gastroduodenal ulcers were examined immunohistochemically for ASMA, HCD, CD34, CD31, CAM5.2 and HMW-CK, and double staining of ASMA and CAM5.2 was also performed. In addition, to determine the cell ...

Since few previous studies have examined the effects of urocortin on physiological fed and fasted gastrointestinal motility, we administered urocortin intracerebroventricularly (icv) or intravenously (iv) in freely moving conscious rats and examined the changes in antral and duodenal motility. Icv and iv injection of urocortin disrupted fasted motor patterns of gastroduodenal motility, which we...

The aim of this study was to correlate endoscopic, radiological and pathological observations in 30 patients with Crohn's disease, with involvement of the stomach and/or duodenum. The incidence of gastroduodenal involvement in our patients with Crohn's disease is about 3%. 22 of the 30 patients had intrinsic lesions of the stomach and/or duodenum; in 8 patients the lesions seemed to be produced...