Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) formerly called Wegener's granulomatosis is a chronic necrotizing granulomatous inflammatory disease with systemic vasculitis involving the upper and lower respiratory tract, and kidneys. The typical histopathology is that of necrotizing granulomatous inflammation with palisading histiocytes, neutrophils, and lymphocytes. We report a case of a 57-year-old ...

BACKGROUND The clinical manifestations of eosinophilic gastroenteritis are nonspecific and vary depending on which layer of the gastrointestinal tract is involved. Computed tomography (CT) is valuable for detecting and characterizing gastrointestinal wall abnormalities. CASE REPORT We report a case of eosinophilic gastroenteritis that formed a chamber in the rigid duodenal wall of a 67-year-o...

Eosinophilic digestive disease (EDD) includes a broad spectrum of clinical presentations due to eosinophilic inflammation involving anywhere from the esophagus to the rectum. The heterogeneity in the clinical presentations of EDD is determined by the site and depth of eosinophilic infiltration. The sites of inflammation determine the nomenclature for EDD. The most well characterized of these, e...

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE) is a rare gastrointestinal disease characterized by generalized abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding and weight loss. The etiology pathogenesis are not well understood mostly based on case reports. Clinical presentation may vary depending sites depth of involvement the tract. diagnosis usually confirmed histology that shows eosinophilic infiltr...

Infiltration of the antrum and small bowel with eosinophils has been reported to be the etiologic factor for intestinal obstruction in adults with eosinophilic gastroenteritis. We report a case of a breast-fed 8-month-old infant with eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE), who presented with severe hematemesis and congenital obstruction of the duodenum, to emphasize that not all obstructive symptom...

Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis is a rare disease characterized by infiltration of the gastrointestinal tract by an increased number of eosinophils as compared to the normal. The anatomic location and intensity of the infiltrate decides the varied clinical symptomatology with which these patients present. The present report deals with four cases, all presenting with clinical signs of intestinal ob...

Sarfaraz Jasdanwala, MD1 CS Pitchumoni, MD2 1Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ 2Chief of Gastroenterolgy, Hepatology and Clinical Nutrition, Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ to the GI tract, or is clearly predominant within portion of the GI tract. The majority of GI lymphomas are nonHodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL). Hodgkin’s lymphoma of the GI tract, although reported, are ...