Background Nodular lymphoid hyperplasia (NLH) of intestine is an extremely rare lymphoproliferative disorder of uncertain etiology. Usually, polyps benign lymphoid tissue are present in the intestinal mucosa. It may present as an asymptomatic or manifest with gastrointestinal symptoms such as abdominal pain, chronic diarrhea, occult bleeding or intestinal obstruction. NLH found in association w...

Physicians are educated with the classical teaching that symptomatic patients with Meckel's diverticulum (MD) most often present with painless rectal bleeding. However, a review of the literature reveals that young patients with MD will most commonly present with signs of intestinal obstruction, an etiology not frequency considered in patients presenting to the emergency department with obstruc...

The author presents a young patient presenting with lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to tuberculous appendicitis. Though an ileo-cecal region is the most frequent site of involvement of the intestinal tuberculosis, vermiform appendix involvement is rare. Moreover, intestinal tuberculosis is an uncommon cause of lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Therefore, bleeding from tuberculous appendi...

Behçet disease (BD) is a rare, chronic, multisystemic, inflammatory disease characterized by recurrent oral aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, uveitis, and skin lesions. Intestinal BD occurs in 10-15% of BD patients and shares many clinical characteristics with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), making differentiation of the 2 diseases very difficult and occasionally impossible. The diagnosis of i...

Gastrointestinal duplications are rare congenital malformations and they may vary greatly in presentation, size, location and symptoms. The presence of ectopic gastric mucosa (EGM) in them is not common and they are difficult to diagnose prior to surgery. We present the case of a child with long intestinal duplication with ectopic gastric mucosa who presented with just severe anaemia and delaye...

Cytomegalic inclusion disease is a common complication in recipients of organ transplants. In renal transplant recipients, the disease involves the lungs more often than it does the gastrointestinal tract. We report on a recipient of a cadaveric kidney who had cytomegalic inclusion disease that involved both the upper and lower gastro-intestinal tract, and massive gastro-intestinal bleeding tha...

BACKGROUND The development of wireless capsule endoscopy allows painless imaging of the small intestine. Its clinical use is not yet defined. The aim of this study was to compare the clinical efficacy and technical performance of capsule endoscopy and push enteroscopy in a series of 50 patients with colonoscopy and gastroscopy negative gastrointestinal bleeding. METHODS A wireless capsule end...

Anticoagulants are effective at preventing and treating thrombosis, but can cause bleeding. For decades, vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) have been the only available oral anticoagulants. The development of non-VKA oral anticoagulants (NOACs), which inhibit either factor Xa or thrombin stoichiometrically, has provided alternatives to VKAs for several indications. The results of recent large-scale r...

gastrointestinal duplications are rare congenital malformations and they may vary greatly in presentation, size, location and symptoms. the presence of ectopic gastric mucosa (egm) in them is not common and they are difficult to diagnose prior to surgery. we present the case of a child with long intestinal duplication with ectopic gastric mucosa who presented with just severe anaemia and delaye...

BACKGROUND Syphilis is a chronic, classic sexually transmitted disease caused by Treponema pallidum, which can invade almost all organs of the body and produce various symptoms signs. Although there are some cases colorectal bleeding syphilis, small intestinal syphilis still rare. CASE SUMMARY A 58-year-old man had experienced recurrent abdominal pain melena for 3 years. Repeated gastroenterosc...