Gastrointestinal symptoms are very common in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Lupus "enteritis" is very responsive to treatment but can have devastating consequences if not detected. Most descriptions of enteritis involve the small and large bowel. This is the first report of lupus "enteritis" involving the entire gastrointestinal tract from the esophagus and stomach to the rectum. Lupus "en...

INTRODUCTION Testicular neoplasms metastasizing to the retroperitoneum rarely involve the upper gastrointestinal tract. Gastrointestinal tract metastases usually present with complications including intestinal obstruction, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and rarely ulceration of the bowel mucosa. CASE PRESENTATION We describe an unusual case of duodenal perforation as the presenting manifestatio...

background and objective: to assess the incidence and risk factors of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in children admitted to pediatric intensive care unit for more than 6 hrs. methods: we prospectively collected medical records of children between 1 month and 18 years old admit-ted to our 10 bed picu of a tertiary care university hospital between december 1, 2014 and may 30, 2015. de-mographic...

Background. Blatchford and AIMS65 scores were developed to risk stratify patients with upper gastrointestinal bleed (UGIB). We sought to assess the performance of Blatchford and AIMS65 scores in predicting outcomes in elderly patients with nonvariceal UGIB. Methods. A retrospective cohort study of elderly patients (over 65 years of age) with nonvariceal UGIB admitted to a tertiary care center. ...

Non –variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) remains a common and challenging emergency for gastroenterologists and general physician. The annual incidence is 50 to 150 per 100,000 of the population, and even though there have been significant improvements in endoscopic and supportive therapies, the overall mortality remains around 10%, and may even reach 35% in hospitalised patients wi...

Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGB) is a life-threatening complication of gastrointestinal diseases. There is a large variety of uncommon reasons which contribute to UGB and might become reasons for misdiagnosis and sometimes lead to fatal consequences. In this review, clinical characteristics of uncommon causes of UGB reported in the Chinese literature are summarized.

the aim of the present study was to determine the presence of helicobacter species in different parts of gastrointestinal tract, hepatobiliary system and pancreas of stray cats. six different sites at the level of genus, gastric (h. heilmannii and h. felis) and enterohepatic species of helicobacter were investigated in six cats using species-specific primers by polymerase chain reaction (pcr). ...