AIM To assess whether video capsule endoscopy (VCE) affects the outcomes of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) recipients with gastrointestinal bleeding. METHODS This is a retrospective study of LVAD recipients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) who underwent VCE at a tertiary medical center between 2005 and 2013. All patients were admitted and monitored with telemetry and all...

BACKGROUND The microvascular reperfusion injury after retransfusion has not been completely characterized. Specifically, the question of heterogeneity among different microvascular beds needs to be addressed. In addition, the identification of anaerobic metabolism is elusive. The venoarterial PCO2 to arteriovenous oxygen content difference ratio (Pv-aCO2/Ca-vO2) might be a surrogate for respira...

Although lipomas are encapsulated benign tumors, systemic lipomatosis defines infiltrative nonencapsulated tumors resembling normal adipose tissue. Abdominal lipomatosis and intestinal lipomatosis are different clinicopathological entities with similar clinical symptoms. We describe here a case presenting with upper gastrointestinal bleeding from eroded submucosal lipoma at duodenum secondary t...

peutz–jeghers syndrome is a rare condition characterized by mucocutaneous pigmentation, polyposis and an increased cancer risk at a number of gastrointestinal and extra intestinal organs. we present a patient with a history of gastrointestinal bleeding with no mucocutaneous pigmentation. upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed multiple polyps located in the deuodenum and colon. hist...

Gasiroititestinal hemorrhage is common in patients with chronic pancreatitis. The bleeding source is usually the mucosa ofthe stomach and duodenum. Gastroduodenal artery ancurysms in patients with pancreatitis are rare, but frequently present with massive upper intestinal bleeding. We present a case of recurrent occult and overt gastrointestinal bleeding over a t-year period in a patient with a...

The author offers a resumé of capsule endoscopy as a diagnostic modality in the gastro-intestinal tract. Capsule endoscopy (CE) was first described in 2000 and is possibly one of the most important advances in gastro-intestinal diagnostics, since the introduction of endoscopy as a diagnostic modality. The swallowed pill camera shows images, as it is propagated through the gastro-intestinal trac...

Pavia, IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo, p.le Golgi 3, 27100 Pavia, Italy. Received March 1, 1995; accepted May 8, 1995. G astrointestinal bleeding is a well-known event in patients suffering from congenital hemostatic disorders. In hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia it is the most frequent form of bleeding after epistaxis; in hemophilia the reported incidence varied from 10 to 25%. In contrast, ...

A number of side effects have been noted during aureomycin and chloramphenicol therapy. Harris' described the untoward effects in detail and suggested that many of these are caused by an interference with the biochemical processes involved in vitamin B metabolism. In addition to the gastrointestinal symptoms of nausea and/or vomiting, epigastric distress, heartburn, and diarrhea, he noted that ...

Massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding is a known complication of advanced sepsis in trauma patients and carries a grave prognosis. However, to our knowledge, an important cause of massive gastrointestinal bleeding, arterio-visceral fistula, has not been discussed in the literature. The most common cause of this unique clinical entity is penetrating high velocity abdominal injuries, altho...

OBJECTIVES Lipomas are the second most common benign tumors of the small bowel, and most lipomas are asymptomatic. However, lipomas with diameters of >20 mm tend to be symptomatic, for example, to cause bleeding, obstructive jaundice, abdominal pain, intestinal obstruction, intussusception, and/or perforation. METHODS/RESULTS We report a case of massive gastrointestinal bleeding from a jejuna...