Inflammatory fibroid polyps are uncommon benign lesions that originate in the submucosa of the gastrointestinal tract. The stomach and the ileum are the most commonly affected sites. Although inflammatory fibroid polyp is one of the rare conditions leading to intestinal obstruction in adults, it should be considered as a possible diagnosis in obstructive tumors of the small bowel causing intuss...

BACKGROUND People with anxiety disorders occasionally report fears about losing control of basic bodily functions in public. These anxieties often occur in the absence of physical disorder and have previously been recognized as "obsessive" anxieties reflecting a preoccupation with loss of bowel/bladder control. Motivated by our observations of the non-trivial occurrence of such anxieties in our...

anemia is the most common hematologic disorder in patients with ulcerative colitis (uc). in some cases, normochromic anemia results from the presence of chronic disease; however blood loss or malabsorption may lead to an iron deficiency anemia with hypochromic appearance. other rare hematologic manifestations associated with uc include myelodysplastic syndromes and leukemia. several investigato...

The diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) frequently is made after the exclusion of a mechanical etiology for a patient's symptoms. This case demonstrates that IBS symptoms can be caused by a rare complication of a common surgery: mesh herniorrhaphy repair. The patient is a 50-year-old woman who underwent periumbilical Marlex mesh herniorrhaphy 13 years before presentation. After her oper...

Recently Henningsen, Zipfel, and Herzog described the nature and management of functional somatic syndromes (FSS). They pointed out that functional somatic syndromes are “characterized by patterns of persistent bodily complaints for which adequate examination does not reveal suffi ciently explanatory structural or other specifi ed pathology,” 1(p946) but they are common worldwide and are seen b...

premenstrual syndromes (pms) are a group of menstrually related, chronic and cyclical disorders characterized by emotional, behavioral, and physical symptoms in the second half (luteal phase) of the menstrual cycle. several line of evidence point to a significant role of the serotonergic system in the course of the luteal phase in women with pms/ premenstrual dysphoric disorder. it has been rep...

Objective: To describe the relationship between viscerosomatic pain syndromes and myofascial pain syndromes [MPS]. Findings: Myofascial pain syndromes can be primary conditions or secondary. When they are secondary, they occur as a manifestation of another disorder. A regional pain referral from a visceral disorder can induce secondary MPS. Visceral disorders induce central sensitization with h...

The new coronavirus disease COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has put an unprecedented strain on health care system and is one of leading infectious diseases in terms prevalence development complications various body systems. Among main risk factors that negatively affect course COVID-19: age over 65 years, coronary artery (CAD), chronic heart failure (CHF), arrhythmias, obstructive pul...

Not only the ancient man was tormented by the whirlwinds in his bowel but even today belching, bloating and flatulence remain all too common to the modern man. Although the syndromes related to intestinal gas were recognised since time of Hippocrates, the treatment of these syndromes had been far from satisfactory (I). The advent of space exploration, and with it the recognition, that gaseous d...

bezoars are concretions of foreign materials that impair gastrointestinal motility or cause intestinal obstruction in the stomach, small intestine or bowel of humans or animals. there are many types of them such as phyto, lacto and trichobezoars. although bezoars are not rare, multiple giant bezoars which totally fill the stomach lumen and have extension to the small intestine (rapunzel syndrom...