Abstract Aims Colonic perforation is an adverse event of colonoscopy. This around 1/1500 in diagnostic colonoscopy, 1/500 polypectomy procedures & 1/50 EMR procedure. study to evaluate the management colonic at a single centre. Methods Colonoscopy carried out on patients with colorectal cancer symptoms, family history, polyp surveillance. Retrospective since 2012 all colonoscopies evaluatio...

Mutations resulting in the truncation of the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) protein are common to most colonic tumours. The APC protein has emerged as a multifunctional protein that contributes to cytoskeletal organisation and is involved in the regulation of beta-catenin. Both, changes in transcription due to increases in beta-catenin, as well as defects in directed cell migration and cell d...

background: to compare the efficacy of metronidazole versus placebo in the control of gaseous symptoms inpatients with functional bowel disease. materials and methods: in the absence of organic or systemic diseases, all cases with chief complaints of bloating and normal laboratory tests were consecutively enrolled in this double-blind study. lactase deficiency and bacterial overgrowth were rule...

background: early diagnosis and endoscopic resection of adenomatous polyps is the main approach for screening and prevention of colorectal cancer (crc). we aimed to assess polyp detection rate (pdr) and to characterize demographic, clinical, and pathological features of colorectal polyps in an iranian population. methods: we retrospectively analyzed the data from 5427 colonoscopies performed du...

to access the surgical progress of patients with long segment aganglionosis and long-term evaluation. during the past 15 years, we reviewed the therapy and outcome of 15 patients with long-segment agangelionosis (lsa) in mofid children's hospital. 2 with agangelionosis to the midtransvers colon (mta(, 8 to the ascendant and cecum (a/ca), 4 with total colonic and distal ileum involvement (tca), ...

Limited data in animal models suggest that colonic mucosa undergoes adaptive growth following massive small bowel resection (SBR). In vitro data suggest that intestinal cell growth is regulated by reactive oxygen species and redox couples [e.g., glutathione (GSH)/glutathione disulfide (GSSG) and cysteine (Cys)/cystine (CySS) redox]. We investigated the effects of SBR and alterations in redox on...

Colonic epithelial stem cells are believed to be located at the crypt base where they have previously been shown to express musashi-1. The colonic stem cell niche, which includes extracellular matrix and myofibroblasts (together with other cell types), is likely to be important in maintaining the function of the progenitor cells. The aims of our studies were to characterize stem cells in isolat...

We have recently demonstrated that the colon possesses at least 4 pacemakers which presumably generate electric waves and that colonic pacing evokes electric activity in colonic inertia. We tested the hypothesis that electric waves produced by artificial colonic pacing in colonic inertia patients may initiate colonic motilitiy and effect evacuation. 17 patients with constipation due to total co...

The expression of 15-lipoxygenase-1 (15-LOX-1) is downregulated in colon cancer and other major cancers, and 15-LOX-1 reexpression in cancer cells suppresses colonic tumorigenesis. Various lines of evidence indicate that 15-LOX-1 expression suppresses premetastatic stages of colonic tumorigenesis; nevertheless, the role of 15-LOX-1 loss of expression in cancer epithelial cells in metastases con...