A 64-year-old Japanese woman with ulcerative colitis visited our hospital for abdominal distention. Laboratory examinations and abdominal ultrasonography demonstrated no abnormal findings. Colonoscopy showed sessile polypoid lesions with no overlying mucosal abnormalities in the ascending colon (Picture 1). These lesions were soft and dented when pressed by biopsy forceps. Plain computed tomogr...

Necrotizing enterocolitis(NEC) is the most significant gastrointestinal emergency in neonates, particularly affecting those who are premature. Neonatal appendicitis highly uncommon term infants and its diagnosis typically incidental. The clinical presentation of newborn nonspecific usually mimics that NEC. Pneumatosis intestinalis a finding extremely specific to NEC; it very surprising observe ...

Atrial natriuretic peptide was found in the heart of vertebrates, we studied the ANP presence in the heart of Ciona intestinalis. This is animal is very important because of the its evolutionary position between invertebrates and vertebrates. ANP presence was only revealed in myoepithelial cells of the myocardium. Results suggest the hypothesis that ANP is present not only in the vertebrates bu...

Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis (PCI) is the rare clinical finding of gas accumulation within the gastrointestinal wall. It can be secondary to a variety of disease processes including Crohn’s disease and systemic sclerosis. The present case describes PCI associated with pneumoperitoneum and ascites as the initial presentation of systemic sclerosis in a 64-year-old female with a history of C...

Pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) is an uncommon disorder defined as multiple foci of gas within the intestinal wall. Despite recognition of an increasing number of cases of PI, the optimal management strategy, whether through surgical or other means, remains controversial. The present report describes the case of a patient with PI who underwent exploratory laparotomy without specific findings and ...

Glugoides intestinalis, Microsporidium sp., Ordospora colligata, Gurleya vavrai, Larssonia obtusa and Flabelliforma magnivora are microsporidian parasites of planctonic freshwater crustaceans Daphnia spp. We performed a phylogenetic analysis of the small subunit ribosomal DNA which revealed their positions as polyphyletic. G. intestinalis, Microsporidium sp. and O. colligata, which are horizont...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of parasitic infections among patients attending Saint Camille Medical Centre and to estimate co-parasitic infections rates. METHODS From January to December 2009, stool samples were collected from 11 728 persons, aged from five months to 72 years and suffering from gastroenteritis. After macroscopic description, the stools were examined by light microscopy ...

Microsporidia are a cause of emerging and opportunistic infections in humans and animals. Although two drugs are currently being used to treat microsporidiosis, concerns exist that albendazole is only selective for inhibiting some species of microsporidia that infect mammals, and fumagillin appears to have been found to be toxic. During a limited sequence survey of the Vittaforma corneae genome...