Food allergy (FA) is a disease with increasing prevalence and a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations. These include the eosinophilic disorders, which can involve any segment of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), including the stomach. In this context, three patients with a confirmed diagnosis of food allergy, who were initially diagnosed with pyloric hypertrophy, are presented. All cases sho...

AIMS To assess the efficacy of a new regimen of intravenous atropine treatment for infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) with special reference to regression of pyloric hypertrophy. METHODS Atropine was given intravenously at a dose of 0.01 mg/kg six times a day before feeding in 19 patients with IHPS diagnosed from radiographic and ultrasonographic findings. When vomiting ceased and...

A 57-year-old female with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma underwent hepatic trisegmentectomy and chemoradiation. Her course was complicated by recurrent episodes of radiation-induced gastric outlet obstruction requiring balloon dilations. She presented with right lower quadrant pain after routine upper endoscopy with pyloric dilation. A computed tomography (CT) showed isolated right-sided ische...

PURPOSE We retrospectively investigated the feasibility and clinical efficacy of balloon dilatation and subsequent retrievable stent insertion, when necessitated, for pyloric spasms after pylorus-preserving gastrectomy (PPG). MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty-five patients experiencing pyloric spasms after PPG underwent fluoroscopic balloon dilations to alleviate obstructive symptoms due to delayed...

Congenital pyloric atresia is a rare anomaly accounting for less than 1% of upper GI atresias. It may occur in isolation or in association with other congenital anomalies, epidermolysis bullosa being the most frequent. It presents with upper abdominal distension, non-bilious vomiting or rarely with complications as aspiration pneumonia, electrolyte imbalance or gastric perforation. Though iatro...

Pyloric duodenal stenosis is usually caused by pyloric, juxtapyloric or duodenal ulcer, or by postbulbar ulcer. Gallbladder cancer (GBC), duodenal diverticula, annular pancreas and superior mesenteric artery syndrome (Wilkie's syndrome) are rare causes of pyloric duodenal stenosis. The case of a 66-year-old female patient is presented. The patient was admitted to hospital presenting anorexia, r...

Sarcina are gram-positive anaerobic bacteria found to be associated with delayed gastric emptying and gastric outlet obstruction. We describe two cases of Sarcina co-existing with Helicobacter pylori organisms in pediatric siblings presenting within four months of each other with pyloric obstruction secondary to severe gastritis/duodenitis. The co-existence of Sarcina and Helicobacter pylori ha...