A 56-year-old woman was admitted because of frequent watery diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal cramps. An examination of the stool for norovirus antigen was positive, and a blood examination revealed a marked elevation of liver enzymes. Liver dysfunction, as well as symptoms related to gastroenteritis, was ameliorated solely by supportive treatment. Although liver injury concurrent with noroviru...

Cutaneous Crohn’s disease (CCD) is a relatively rare disease. Two-thirds of the affected patients are female with a mean age of onset of 35 years. CCD is divided into a genital type and an extra-genital type, each with their own unique different clinical manifestations. The usual presentation of genital Crohn’s disease (CD) is in the form of erythema and edema of the labia and scrotum. Here, we...

A 48 year old female patient with intestinal malabsorption and subtotal to total jejunal villous atrophy also had granulomatous inflammation characterised by numerous epitheloid and giant cell granulomas in the stomach, the jejunum, and the liver, On a gluten-free diet a complete remission was achieved that included disappearance of the granulomatous inflammation. It is suggested that the granu...

Although shigellosis is a potentially fatal disease that may cause a number of extra-intestinal manifestations, intractable septic shock is an unusual complication. Here we describe a 6-month-old infant who developed severe septic shock and convulsions during an episode of dysentery caused by multidrug-resistant Shigella dysenteriae. The case presentation demonstrates how shigellosis can lead t...

Opinions are divided regarding the pathological manifestations of the flagellates. Alvarez, Silverton and Bernardino are of opinion that the fact that the infection as well as the symptom disappeared after treatment with atebrin proved beyond doubt the pathogenicity of the flagellates. Chopra et al. (1939) from a routine study of the stools of the patients, the symptoms and the response to trea...

Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that is suspected to result from a dysregulated immune system in genetically predisposed individuals, which can lead to abdominal pain, diarrhea, malnutrition and extraintestinal manifestations. Intestinal inflammation and subsequent symptoms tend to recur over time and can lead to other complications, such as fistulas, abscesses, and...

A. Acute Infective Hepatitis (i) The pre-icteric phase, with pyrexia and intestinal manifestations dominating the picture. (ii) The icteric phase, with jaundice as the dominant manifestation. The type varies from the fulminating to the average type of case with jaundice lasting two to three weeks. (iii) The post-hepatitis syndrome, the stage of symptoms without signs. (iv) Infective hepatitis w...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are unique neoplasms that occur throughout the gastrointestinal tract, mesentery, omentum, and retroperitoneum. Because most GISTs arise within the muscularis propria of the stomach or intestinal wall, GISTS most commonly have an exophytic growth pattern; intramural and intraluminal masses are less common manifestations. Calcification is an unusual featur...

Endometriosis is commonly found in 10 to 15 percent of women aged between 25 and 44 years,! and it has been estimated that 25 to 40 percent of infertile women have endometriosis.! In this report, we describe a patient with endometriosis whose signs were massive bloody ascites. The purpose of this report is to increase awareness among physicians of the varied clinical manifestations of intestina...

S. haematobium is an important cause of urinary schistosomiasis, and symptomatic female genital infection is a common gynecological finding in areas where S. haematobium is prevalent. On the other hand, genital manifestations of intestinal schistosomas as S. mansoni are not frequent or are misdiagnosed. A case of a 40-year-old woman with abnormal uterine bleeding and asymptomatic tubal infectio...