Breath hydrogen in pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis.

Improvement of pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis after steroid tapering in a patient with bronchial asthma: a case report

INTRODUCTION We report the case of a patient who was diagnosed as having pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis while being treated with prednisolone for bronchial asthma. Even before we had experienced a case of this, the relationship between pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis and prednisolone was unclear. In this case, pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis was improved with the reduction of predniso...

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Spontaneous benign pneumoperitoneum complicating scleroderma in the absence of pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis.

We describe a 64 year old woman with a 3-year history of scleroderma who presented as an emergency with increasing painless abdominal distention. Radiological investigations revealed a pneumoperitoneum in the absence of either visceral perforation or pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis. This is only the fourth report of spontaneous benign pneumoperitoneum complicating scleroderma without pneumat...

Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis: A Rare Benign Cause of Pneumoperitoneum

Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis is a rare gastrointestinal complication in the course of connective tissue diseases, especially in scleroderma, that can lead to pneumoperitoneum or obstruction. Findings on plain radiography may reveal radiolucent linear or bubbly circular air bubbles in the bowel wall, with or without free gas accumulation in the peritoneal cavity. Treatment of pneumatosis c...

Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis.

Patients with free intraperitoneal air usually undergo emergency surgery. Some of these patients will have no identifiable perforation, for instance those with pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis. This is a rare condition characterized by multiple intramural gas cysts in the gastrointestinal tract. The most common symptoms are meteorism, excessive flatulence, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, passage o...