Specialized nutrition support (SNS) is required when oral intake either limited or not possible for a prolonged period of time. Common indications SNS include patients in critical care, those with dysphagia, unconscious who cannot be fed, severely malnourished patients, and intestinal malabsorption. The two forms are enteral parenteral nutrition. Enteral feeding always preferred whenever possib...

Introduction. Ileal leiomyosarcoma is unusual form of malignant gastrointestinal tumor. Often insidious in clinical presentation, it frequently presents a diagnostic challenge. Occasionally, correct diagnosis finally established due to emergency situation. The aim this study present the role magnetic enterography determining precise cause small bowel dilation. Case outline. A 59-year-old female...

Heart disease is the leading cause of premature death for women in Canada. Ischemic heart (IHD) categorized as myocardial infarction (MI) with no obstructive coronary artery (MINOCA), ischemia arteries (INOCA), and atherosclerotic (CAD) MI (MI-CAD) or without (non-MI CAD). This study aims to prevalence traditional non-traditional IHD risk factors their relationships (M)INOCA compared MI-CAD non...

BACKGROUND Syndromes for which no physical or pathological changes can be found tend to be researched and managed in isolation although hypotheses suggest that they may be one entity. The objectives of our study were to investigate the co-occurrence, in the general population, of syndromes that are frequently unexplained and to evaluate whether they have common associated factors. METHODS We ...

Patients with inflammatory and ischaemic bowel diseases seem to tolerate narrowing of the gut lumen to a critical degree of stenosis without obstructive symptoms. To determine the physical factors involved in bowel occlusion, we created an experimental model using New Zealand rabbits in acute experiments under general anaesthesia. At operation a loop of small bowel was isolated and canulated, p...

Enteroclysis was first used to diagnose small bowel obstruction in 1996. However, nasojejunal intubation required during enteroclysis causes discomfort to the patient. Triphasic computed tomography (CT) enterography, a noninvasive procedure that does not require intubation, was found to be an efficient method to diagnose small bowel lesions. We describe our experience of using triphasic CT ente...

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In this paper we focus our attention on the role of two families of receptors, Toll-like receptors (TLR) and decoy receptors (DcR) involved in the generation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus-like syndromes in human and mouse models. To date, these molecules were described in several autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, antiphospholipids syndrome, bowel inflammation,...

Introduction Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) has been suggested to be beneficial in inflammatory bowel syndromes, mainly in Crohn’s disease, on the assumption that enteric tissue oxygenation is impaired. Several reports have shown encouraging results on the use of HBO in patients with severe or recurrent perineal CD [1-5]. The role of HBO in the pathogenesis of CD has to be determined in order to expla...