The case of the two year old thoroughbred filly presented here has been diagnosed with and treated for equine gastric ulceration syndrome (EGUS). The results of her examination are documented over a five month period. The patient was finally hospitalised with acute severe colic. Absence of chronic clinical problems common for pyloric stenosis can be attributed to the permanent antiulceration me...

Even outside paediatric circles the clinical picture of congenital stenosis of the pylorus is nowadays well known, although Bloch as late as 1906 wrote that ' stenosis pylori congenita ' was not recognized by paediatricians until several years after Hirschsprung described it in 1887, and even then in 1906 it was little known to the medical profession in general. Since then the disease has been ...

A man, who had been treated for infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (PS), was found to have 3 sons with the same condition. A genealogical table of his family showed that both his parents had relatives with PS. So far as it was known, none of his wife's relatives had the condition. It is suggested that the man's parents carried genes predisposing to PS and transmitted these to him in such q...

Background Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS) is a common surgical condition in infancy, and typically presents at 2-4 weeks of age. Case Presentation A full term male neonate in Zeinabieh hospital, Shiraz, Iran was presented with oral feeding intolerance from birth, bile-stained...

The birth of a normal infant to a woman with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is described. The cord blood serum gastrin was very elevated. This suggests that maternal gastrin can cross the placenta, a fact previously in doubt in man. The infant did not develop congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. This is further evidence that raised blood gastrin in utero is not an important causative factor in...

A thirty eight year old female with a long standing history of a chronic duodenal ulcer presented at the Nyeri Provincial General Hospital with vomiting, abdominal pain and abdominal distension. Oesophago-gastro-duodenoscopy revealed a tight pyloric stenosis while abdominal ultrasonography showed ascites. At laparatomy, she was coincidentally found to have pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis (PC...

The development of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis concurrently in both sibs of uniovular, as well as binovular, twin pregnancies is well documented and has been the subject of numerous reviews (Metrakos, 1953; MacMahon and McKeown, 1955). The condition has also been described in 3 (Cameron, 1955), 4 (Gailey, 1948), and even 5 sibs (Benson, 1970) in the same family. This is the first r...

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Idiopathic pyloric stenosis in adults is a rare condition of unknown etiology, caused by hypertrophy and hyperplasia of the pyloric musculature with gastric outlet obstruction and delayed gastric emptying. It should be differentiated from the secondary form, caused by recurrent peptic ulcers, malignancy or hypertrophic gastritis. Symptoms include epigastric pain, early satiety and postprandial ...

Szilagyi and McGraw in 1943 aptly pointed out that 'When a disease has ceased to be a therapeutic problem, scientific interest in it is likely to wane. Not infrequently successful measures of treatment are devised before the fundamental problems of a disease have been solved, and in such instances the consequent lack of interest will be reflected in the neglect of the related, less practical bu...