Clostridium difficile is associated with a spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from asymptomatic carriage to severe life-threatening pseudomembranous colitis. Current perspectives indicate that C difficile pathogenesis is a multifactorial disease process dictated by pathogenic toxin production, gut microbial dysbiosis, and altered host inflammatory responses. This article summarizes rec...

Tuberculosis is still a public health problem today and can have acute chronic manifestations challenging clinics for various medical specialties. Because it’s disease of multisystem potential, it often overlooked when outside the respiratory clinical context. As result, case report was carried out at Hospital de Clínicas Porto Alegre, in 2020, patient with voluminous gastrointestinal bleeding ...

Ehlers-Danlos is a hereditary disease of the whole connective tissue initially described by dermatologists (Tscherchnogobov Moscow 1892, Ehlers, Copenhagen, 1900, Danlos, Paris, 1908). They emphasized joint hyperlaxity and stretchiness skin which has long summed up clinical expression this entity. In recent decades, many other manifestations have been gradually identified, mainly rheumatologist...

eosinophilic gastroenteritis (ege) was a rare  gastrointestinal disease that was seen in all ages usually associated with dyspepsia, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, blood loss in stools and malabsorption. we reported a six-month-old boy with rectorrhagia, family history of allergy, elevated ige and eosinophil in blood with normal endoscopy. because of eosinophilic infiltration in lamina pro...

conclusions this report aimed to increase awareness of the occurrence of extra-intestinal systemic manifestations of rotavirus infection. although such cases may be rare, they still suggest that that rotavirus is a systemic viral infection. case presentations we report three pediatric cases of rotavirus infection: one accompanied by encephalopathy and two with elevated hepatic transaminase acti...

To discuss and analyze the diagnosis treatment methods of small bowel diverticulum to improve level treatment. The clinical data two patients with found by intraoperative exploration in our hospital were analyzed, preoperative postoperative diagnoses compared, as well causes misdiagnosis. could not be clearly diagnosed before surgery, but they during surgical exploration, discharged after Small...

Clinical manifestations of lactase (LCT) deficiency include intestinal and extra-intestinal symptoms. Lactose hydrogen breath test (H2-BT) is considered the gold standard to evaluate LCT deficiency (LD). Recently, the single-nucleotide polymorphism C/T(-13910) has been associated with LD. The objectives of the present study were to evaluate the agreement between genetic testing of LCT C/T(-1391...

As only a handful of lymphoma cases have been reported in conjunction with primary intestinal lymphangiectasia, it is not yet clear if this association is merely fortuitous or related to primary intestinal lymphangiectasia induced immune deficiency. We report on two female patients, 50 and 58 years old, who developed small intestinal high grade B cell lymphoma a long time (45 and 40 years, resp...