BACKGROUND Troponin elevation is a risk factor for mortality in patients with non-ST-segment-elevation acute coronary syndromes. However, the prognosis of patients with troponin elevation and nonobstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) is unknown. Our objective was therefore to evaluate the impact of nonobstructive CAD in patients with non-ST-segment-elevation acute coronary syndromes and trop...

the inflammatory bowel diseases (ibd) have been found to accompany some neurological syndromes including multiple sclerosis (ms). recently, several studies have reported and discussed the simultaneous presence of ibd and ms in some patients. thus, in patients with either disease, the presence of signs and symptoms of the other should raise the clinical suspicion of the clinician and warrant spe...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The functional somatic syndromes are associated with a variety of symptoms/signs of uncertain etiology. We determined the prevalence of several of those symptoms/signs in patients with sleep-disordered breathing and examined the relationship between the prevalence of the symptoms/signs and the severity of sleep-disordered breathing. DESIGN A descriptive study without interven...

This perspective article aims at addressing the potential commonalities associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and two metabolic fatty liver syndromes: nonalcoholic (NAFLD) (associated) (MAFLD). To this end, we briefly review definitions burdens of COPD NAFLD highlight differences in diagnostic criteria MAFLD. We also critically discuss recent line research trying to ident...

Three-hundred-thirteen cases of small and large bowel obstructions surgically managed, from May 1974 to September 1995, are reviewed. Particularly, 10 uncommon cases are described: 3 hernias in anomalous recesses, 1 small bowel spontaneous hematoma, 2 Ogilvie syndromes, 1 obstruction due to cholecystitis, 1 left diaphragmatic hernia, 1 encapsulating peritonitis, 1 incarcerated Spigelian hernia....

encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (eps) is a rare, acquired condition that has been described interchangeablywith peritoneal encapsulation (pe) as well as abdominal cocoon. eps causes complications for peritoneal dialysis (pd) patients. in eps, the small intestine is covered by a fibrotic and inflammatory peritoneal capsule that either partially or completely encases the bowel. for eps, there ...

cinoma(CRC) present with partial or complete bowel obstruction at diagnosis, accounting for about 85% of emergent surgery for CRC. Poorer prognosis has been reported in these patients as compared with those who required elective surgery. The choices of surgical intervention for obstructive CRC vary widely, depending on tumor location, patient’s general condition, and surgeon’s experience. It is...