Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), doesn't affect only the intestinal tract, but also involve other organs such as: eyes, skin, joints, liver and biliary tracts, kidneys, lungs, vascular system. It is difficult to differentiate the true extraintestinal manifestations from secondary extraintestinal complications. The pathogenetic autoimm...

he incidence of the diverticulum of the small bowel varies from 0.2-1.3% in autopsy studies to 2.3% when assessed on enteroclysis. it occurs mostly in patients in the 6th decade of their life. of all the small bowel diverticuli, jejunal diverticulum is the most common type. this rare entity is usually asymptomatic. however, they may cause chronic non-specific symptoms for a long period of time ...

Intestinal lymphangiectasia is a rare autosomal dominant disorder or acquired condition that leads to lymph obstruction, poor chyle transport, and concomitant problems of hypoproteinemia, lymphocytopenia, hypogammaglobulinemia, and peripheral edema. Patients develop diarrhea, steatorrhea, and hypocalcemia secondary to fat-soluble vitamin malabsorption. Treatment is a restrictive diet of low fat...

Multiple extraintestinal diseases are present in 0.3- 4.5 % of inflammatory bowel disease patients. A 39-year-old woman was admitted with a 3 months history of cervicalgia with functional incapacity, asthenia, tibio-tarsal bilateral arthritis and bloody diarrhoea. She had ferropenic anemia, SR-120 mm, creatinine clearance-42 mL/min, proteinuria-1.2 g/24h. Colonoscopy with biopsy showed active u...

Familijarna adenomatozna polipoza (FAP) je autozomno dominantni polipozni sindrom, odgovoran za pojavu oko 1% svih kolorektalnih karcinoma (CRC) . Ovaj sindrom se ispoljava kod 1/5 000 do 1/17 000 živorođene dece 2, 3 sa stopom penetracije od preko 90% . Zahvata podjednako oba pola i sve geografske lokalitete . Obolele osobe razvijaju 100−5 000 adenoma (prosečan broj adenoma > 1 000) tubularne ...

Data from studies of 916 children with diarrhea, including 122 from whom shigellae were isolated, and data on patients affected in an epidemic due to Shigella dysenteriae type I were analyzed to determine whether a diagnostic clinical profile of shigellosis could be identified. Blood and/or mucus in stool, increased frequency of stool, abdominal pain, rectal tenesmus, and fever were noted more ...

BACKGROUND Congenital intestinal lymphangiectasia is a disease which leads to protein losing enteropathy. Tortuous, dilated lymphatic vessels in the intestinal wall and mesenterium are typical features of the disease. Clinical manifestations include malabsorption, diarrhea, steatorrhea, edema and effusions. Specific diet and medication are required for disease control. CASE REPORT A 19-year o...