Objectives: To find out Incidence of carcinoma stomach in patients who underwent upper GI endoscopy To identify different pathological conditions in patients who underwent upper GI endoscopy Materials & Methods: A Prospective study was done in seven hundred sixty patients in a period of one and half years in Fishtail Hospital, Gairapatan, and Pokhara, Nepal from April 2008 to September 2010. Fi...

This is one of a series of statements discussing the use of GI endoscopy in common clinical situations. The Standards of Practice Committee of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) prepared this text. In preparing this guideline, a search of the medical literature was performed by using PubMed. Additional references were obtained from the bibliographies of the identified ar...

Potassium permanganate (KMnO4) is rarely used for suicidal attempt. Its ingestion can lead to local as well as systemic toxicities due to coagulation necrosis and damage, caused by free radicals of permanganate. We recently managed a case of suicidal ingestion of KMnO4 in a lethal dose. She had significant narrowing of upper airway leading to difficult intubation as well as hepatic dysfunction ...

here we describe the second reported case of cannabinoid hyperemesis in uk. a 42 years old patient presented on more than one occasion with vomiting, abdominal pain, fever and dehydration and treated as sepsis with antibiotics. extensive investigations including upper gi endoscopy, colonoscopy, chest x-ray, abdominal ultrasound, abdominal ct scan, barium swallow and echocardiogram; all reported...

Ectopic varices are defined as dilated portosystemic collateral veins in locations other than the gastroesophageal region. We present a case of recurrent upper gastrointestinal bleeding as the first manifestation of portal hypertension. We diagnosed ectopic duodenal varices without gastroesophageal varices on upper GI endoscopy and extrahepatic portal venous obstruction (EHPVO) on CT angiograph...

introduction: esophagus injuries secondary to caustic ingestion occurs frequently in children. oral damages cannot give us a clear image of what has happened in upper gi. therefore endoscopy is only diagnostic way to evaluate upper gi injuries. in this study, we found out the endoscopic results in children admitted with caustic ingestion in qaem(a. s.) hospital between 2011 to 2013 , and compar...

BACKGROUND Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have been associated with upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. Given their worldwide use, even small risks account for a large number of cases. This study has been conducted with carefully collected information to further investigate the relationship between SSRIs and upper GI bleeding. METHODS We conducted a case-control study in ho...

* Corresponding Author: Maryam Moini, MD Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Telefax: + 98 711 6473236 Email: [email protected] Received: 10 Jan. 2013 Accepted: 11 Mar. 2013 A 50-year-old lady presented with bloody vomiting and melena since four days prior to admission. Her medical history was significant only for hypertension wh...

BACKGROUND Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infected patient frequently report upper gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms; however their prevalence and diagnostic approach is not well known. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to study clinical, endoscopic and histopathological changes in HIV infected patients with upper GI symptoms and their correlation with CD4 count. MATERIALS AND METH...