A 65-year-old man with end-stage renal disease secondary to nephroangiosclerosis on hemodialysis was admitted to undergo a cadaveric kidney transplant. He had a previous history of moderate-to-severe aortic stenosis. Twenty-four hours after surgery, the patient developed an acute pulmonary oedema followed by cardiac arrest. Advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation and aggressive fluid removal thr...

Congenital esophageal atresia needs to be surgically corrected as soon as possible. Some will present with post surgical stricture that needs to be dilated by a balloon dilator. This procedure is difficult in premature born due to infant esophageal size and availability of equipments. We herby report the first case in a premature infant with post surgical esophageal stricture of esophageal atre...

Acute aortic dissection remains a surgical emergency. The conventional approach involves graft replacement of the ascending aorta under circulatory arrest with variable extension into the root or arch depending on morphology at presentation. A significant proportion of patients are deemed too high-risk for surgery and are managed medically, but the 30-day mortality is over 58% (1). A 55-year-ol...

Postnatal maturation of esophageal musculature involves proximal-to-distal replacement of smooth muscle with skeletal muscle by elusive mechanisms. We report that this process is impaired in mice lacking the cell surface receptor Cdo and identify the underlying developmental mechanism. A myogenic transition zone containing proliferative skeletal muscle precursor cells migrated in a proximal-dis...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuroradiculopathy (CIDP) is an immune mediated disorder characterized by progressive developing or relapsing symmetrical motor or sensory symptoms in more than one limb over a period of two months. Achalasia, as a primary esophageal motility disorder, is also characterized by increasing the tone of lower esophageal sphincter, absence or incomplete sphinct...

OBJECTIVE Esophagorespiratory fistulas developing from malignant tumors have serious complications by maintaining continuous airway contamination. The objective was to reveal the incidence, causes and characteristics of fistula formation and to examine the possibilities and efficiency of the treatment. METHODS In a single-center study between 1984 and 2004, the data of 2113 patients with tumo...

The injury of the esophageal epithelium may be determined by the reflux of the gastric acid in the esophagus. Barrett's esophagus (BE) is characterized by the replacement of the normal squamous epithelium with the columnar epithelium, when the healing of the lesion occurs. According to some studies, the incidence of the esophageal adenocarcinoma in patients with BE is of about 0,5% per year. Th...

Barrett's esophagus (BE) is the replacement of the normal esophageal squamous epithelium by a columnar lining epithelium. It is a premalignant condition for the development of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and esophagogastric junction. BE is associated with gastroesophageal reflux which might change the expression profile of key transcription factors involved in the establishment of tissue di...