OBJECTIVE Little is known about cow's milk protein intolerance (CMPI) in India. This study was aimed at finding CMPI cases and determining the role of IgG anti-beta-lactoglobulin antibody in the diagnosis of this condition in India. METHODS From June 2004 to December 2005, 30 children with presumptive diagnosis of CMPI, based on endoscopic rectal or duodenal biopsy showing excess eosinophils ...

CONTEXT Culture of Tropheryma whippelii has been established only once, in human fibroblast cell lines from a heart valve inoculum. Molecular-based diagnostic techniques, although highly sensitive, may be less specific. New diagnostic tools involving isolation of bacteria from contaminated intestinal biopsies and immunohistological detection need to be developed. OBJECTIVE To describe a novel...

BACKGROUND Diagnosing IBD in horses is challenging and requires a multimodal approach, since no conclusive diagnostic test is available. The objectives of this study were to provide an overview of population characteristics, results of applied diagnostic tests, treatment modalities and outcome in a large group of horses thought to have IBD and that were presented to four large equine referral h...

BACKGROUND We measured anti-transglutaminase (anti-tTG) antibody in the culture medium of intestinal biopsy specimens from patients with suspected celiac disease (CD) and evaluated the relationship between antibody production and severity of intestinal mucosal damage. METHODS We performed diagnostic testing for CD on 273 consecutive patients. In addition to routine histologic evaluation of du...

A 56-year-old woman presented with a 1-month history of right upper quadrant abdominal pain after a laparoscopic cholecystectomy for gallstones. Her medical history included endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) performed 4months prior to the laparoscopic cholecystectomy for the treatmentof common bile duct (CBD) stones. During this procedure duodenal ulcers had also been found ...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of Helicobacter pylori eradication on the natural history of duodenal ulcer disease, and to determine the incidence of reinfection in adult patients where H pylori had been eradicated in a community with a high prevalence of the infection. An investigator blinded study, with 24 month endoscopic follow up, in subjects where H pylori had been erad...

Introduction: Duodenal gangliocytic paraganglioma (DGP) is a benign tumor that only warrants surgical resection in the majority of cases. Case Report: We are reporting case 42-year-old man who consulted for significant weight loss, fatigue, anemia, and an on–off obstructive jaundice. Imageries showed 5 cm peri-ampullary duodenal mass. couldn’t have diagnosis by endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), so w...