A 5-day-old female neonate presented with persistent non-bilious projectile vomiting since birth. Baby girl was born at term by normal vaginal delivery. Antenatal scans at 12 and 20 weeks of pregnancy were reported as normal. Mother had polyhydramnios in late pregnancy. Baby was discharged home the same day of birth. The baby however developed non-bilious projectile emesis on the same day after...

Tuberculosis of stomach and duodenum is very uncommon even in patients with pulmonary and intestinal tuberculosis. Its preoperative diagnosis still remains a challenging problem for surgeons. Herein, we report the case of isolated duodenal tuberculosis in a 42 year old male presenting with gastric outlet obstruction symptoms. Oesophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (UGIE) revealed fold thickening at D3 s...

This is a case report of an elderly male, who presented with duodenal obstruction caused by abdominal aortic aneurysm. An axillo-bifemoral shunting with an infra renal straight inlay graft together with a feeding jejunostomy was performed. This is rare presentation with only a few cases reported.

Case Report A nine-day-old male infant was transferred from a local hospital to our institution with persistent bilious vomiting since birth. He had been delivered full term per vaginam to a 28-year-old gravida 5, para 4, and weighed 3280 g. During the pregnancy, maternal ultrasound scan revealed polyhydramnios. At presentation, clinical examination was unremarkable. A plain abdominal radiograp...

DESCRIPTION A preterm neonate weighing 1360 g was born at 33+2 weeks’ gestation with severe polyhydramnios. She was transferred, directly after delivery, to our neonatal intensive care unit presenting with distended upper abdomen and vomiting. A plain film of the abdomen (figure 1) was performed with the suspicion of duodenal atresia and showed a markedly distended stomach (S) and proximal duod...

Malignant dual obstruction in the common bile duct and gastric outlet-duodenum can cause difficulties in palliative treatment. The purpose of this study was to summarize our successful experience with the endoscopic stenting procedure for the palliative treatment of malignant biliary and gastric outlet-duodenum obstruction. Seventeen patients who underwent dual stenting procedures for the commo...

Dogs may be immunized against lethal doses of the duodenal loop poison by means of small doses of the loop fluid from dog or cat and by material obtained from human cases of intestinal obstruction. The immunity is transient and may disappear within a few weeks. Dogs immunized by repeated doses of loop fluid show a definite resistance against the intoxication of a closed duodenal loop and may su...

S39 ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND / VOLUME 6 / SUPPLEMENT 1 / AUGUST 2017 VID-THER-01 Endoscopic ultrasound-guided hepaticogastrostomy: Problems and solutions; some unsuccessful and then the right one! Nilay Mehta, Ajay Chocksey Vedanta Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India A 36-year-old male presented with obstructive jaundice and acute pancreatitis. Both imaging and an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy ...

fractions C2, C3, and C4 are required in the warm phase, and fraction Cl is probably required in the cold phase (Hinz, Picken, and Lepow, 1961). Since the introduction of penicillin treatment for syphilis, PCH has become much less common, and an increasing proportion of cases is now seen in association with acute viral infections (Dacie, 1962). In the majority of virus-associated cases the atta...