An 1-year-old male Basset Hound dog was evaluated for chronic intermittent vomiting, hematemesis, and melena which had been ongoing for several months. The histopathologic examination revealed that all layers of the small intestine were thicker than normal. The lamina propria of the mucosa, including the villi, exhibited a prominent cellular infiltrate which consisted of numerous eosinophils an...

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE) is a rare and benign inflammatory disorder that predominantly affects the stomach and the small intestine. The disease is divided into three subtypes (mucosal, muscular and serosal) according to klein's classification, and its manifestations are protean, depending on the involved intestinal segments and layers. Hence, accurate diagnosis of EGE poses a signific...

CMAJ • JANUARY 11, 2011 • 183(1) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors E65 A32-year-old man presented with a two-week history of lower abdominal pain, diarrhea without blood or mucus, and progressive abdominal swelling. He had no fever or recent weight loss, but he had experienced recurrent epigastric pain, nausea and episodic diarrhea for about one year. As a teenager, he had ha...

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...

Few clinical studies have so far focused on gastrointestinal motility in patients with eosinophilic gastroenteritis. A 29-year-old man was evaluated for epigastralgia of unknown origin. A histopathological examination of biopsy specimens from the duodenum revealed numerous eosinophilic infiltrations. Eosinophilic enteritis was therefore diagnosed. The patient received oral prednisolone and his ...

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE) is a rare condition characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the gastrointestinal tract. Depending on the dominant layer of infiltration it is classified into three types namely, mucosal, muscularis and subserosal. The most uncommon variant is the subserosal type characterized by primarily subserosal disease, eosinophilic ascites and peripheral hypereosin...

syndrome or the ingestion of medicinal herbs. Without any of these precipitating causes, idiopathic EC should be considered, as in the case that we report. The clinical presentation is equal to acute cholecystitis and the diagnosis is based on the presence of an eosinophilic infiltrate >90% in the histologic study of the gallbladder. In most patients, the clinical evolution is benign and the sy...