Ekmektzoglou, Konstantinos Alexandrakis, Georgios Dimopoulos, Konstantinos Tsibouris, Panagiotis Kalantzis, Chrysostomos Vlachou, Erasmia Apostolopoulos, Periklis
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Air embolism (a result of direct communication with the vasculature and an external pressure gradient from the gastrointestinal or the biliary tract), although rare, is a potentially devastating adverse event seen in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) procedures. Whether venous, arterial, or paradoxical, the clinical presentation...
Aghalarov, Ilgar Förster, Sarah Tannapfel, Andrea Ubrig, Burkhard Uhl, Waldemar Belyaev, Orlin
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A malignant ureteral obstruction is most often due to primary tumors of the ureter. However, it can occur secondary due to external tumor compression or metastatic infiltration. Distant metastases to the ureter are extremely rare. We present a case of a rare double distant metachronic metastasis to the right ureter as well as to the right renal pel...
Haider, Asim Siddiqa, Ayesha Ali, Nisha Mehershahi, Shehriyar
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Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction (SOD) is a syndrome caused by either dyskinesia or stenosis of the sphincter of Oddi. It has been categorized into biliary and pancreatic SOD based on clinical features and laboratory findings. We present a case of a 51-year-old female (post-cholecystectomy) who presented with intermittent chronic right upper quadrant ...
Tarao, Kazuo Nozaki, Akito Komatsu, Hirokazu
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Oral direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) are the main therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV)-associated liver disease in Japan. Moreover, many DAAs include an indication for compensated liver cirrhosis. However, patients with decompensated HCV-associated cirrhosis have hitherto not been indicated for therapy with DAAs. Recently, a new DAA, sofosbuvir/velp...
Mansy, Mohamed Kotb, Mostafa Abouheba, Mohamed
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Congenital lumbar hernias are uncommonly seen in the pediatric age group, with only about 60 cases reported in the literature. It is usually accompanied by a multitude of congenital anomalies involving different organ systems of the body. For instance, it may involve the ribs, spine, muscles, and the kidneys. Herein, we report a case of congenital ...
Oishi, Koichi Toyota, Kazuhiro Shimomura, Manabu Takahashi, Tadateru
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Castleman’s disease (CD) arising from the hepatoduodenal ligament is extremely rare. A 32-year-old man was referred to a clinic with nausea. He was found to have an abdominal mass by ultrasonography and consulted our hospital for further examination. Computed tomography revealed an equally enhancing mass, 5.2 cm in diameter, adjacent to the duodenu...
Mehershahi, Shehriyar Haider, Asim Fortuzi, Ked Shaikh, Danial H. Patel, Harish
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The occurrence of tuberculosis (TB) is exceedingly rare in the United States (US), and incidence has steadily declined since 1993, but the pace of decline has slowed in recent years. The US TB rate during 2019 declined to 2.7 cases per 100,000 persons, the lowest level on record. The abdominal form is the sixth leading cause of extrapulmonary TB, a...
Cho, Margaret Liu, Weiguo Balzora, Sophie Suarez, Yvelisse Hoskoppal, Deepthi Theise, Neil D. Cao, Wenqing Sarkar, Suparna A.
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Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 in the form of anorexia, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea are usually preceded by respiratory manifestations and are associated with a poor prognosis. Hematochezia is an uncommon clinical presentation of COVID-19, and we hypothesize that older patients with significant comorbidities...
Kataoka, Jun Nitta, Toshikatsu Ota, Masato Fujii, Kensuke Ishii, Masatsugu Senpuku, Sadakatasu Ueda, Yasuhiko Tsuchimoto, Yusuke Takeshita, Atsushi Miyatake, Junichi
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We describe the case of a 78-year-old man with collision tumor from the primary malignant lymphoma and adenocarcinoma in the ascending colon. He suffered anemia from sigmoid colon cancer, and colonoscopy revealed early-stage colorectal cancer with a diameter of 20 mm in the cecum, the biopsy specimen showed moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma....
Wang, Nai-Wei Hsieh, Hsuan Yang, Yao-Jong
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Eosinophilic colitis (EC) belongs to a group of idiopathic diseases called eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders, which are characterized by eosinophil-predominant inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract. Corticosteroids is the first-line pharmacotherapy for EC refractory to diet therapy. We report an infant with steroid-resistant EC, who succ...
