Background: Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that can affect any part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract including the mouth. Bowel symptoms are predominant. Oral involvement may precede the GI symptoms. This case report presents a patient affected by Crohn’s disease with oral onset. Case presentation: We present a 30-year-old pregnant woman complaining of chronic, ...

Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are among the most frequent complaints in patients with HIV disease. Before combination antiretroviral therapy, it was suggested that 50-93% of all patients with HIV disease had marked GI symptoms during the course of their illness [1,2]. Inflammatory changes, direct mucosal invasion of the GI tract by HIV, opportunistic infections and neoplasms are well recogniz...

BACKGROUND Little has been reported on mortality following admissions at weekends for many gastrointestinal (GI) disorders. The aim was to establish whether GI disorders are susceptible to increased mortality following unscheduled admission on weekends compared with weekdays. METHODS Record linkage was undertaken of national administrative inpatient and mortality data for people in England an...

introduction: white spot syndrome virus (wssv) is one of the most deadly infectious pathogens of the shrimp culture industry. neither effective vaccines nor efficient treatments are currently available for this disease. vibrio species are well known dominant bacterial pathogens in the shrimp ponds. as facultative pathogenic bacteria, it is possible that vibrio spp. along with wssv to co-infect ...

Formulating an initial treatment plan for gastrointestinal disease A nutritional plan must be formulated for nearly all patients with primary gastrointestinal (GI) disease. Location of the major clinical problem (i.e. esophageal, gastric, small bowel, large bowel) and chronicity can help a clinician determine the most appropriate diet selection. A dietary plan will vary based on the primary pro...

background: acute upper gi bleeding (ugib) is a common medical emergency situation. in the past years, important changes have taken place that might have influenced the incidence, etiology, and outcome for patients with acute ugib. the aim of this study was to determine current time trends in the incidence, management, and prognosis of patients with ugib in 14 years period in a region in center...

Gastrointestinal (GI) complications are an uncommon but potentially devastating complication of cardiac surgery. The reported incidence varies between .3% and 5.5% with an associated mortality of .3-87%. A wide range of GI complications are reported with bleeding, mesenteric ischemia, pancreatitis, cholecystitis, and ileus the most common. Ischemia is thought to be the main cause of GI complica...

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in recipients of autologous stem cell transplantation (SCT) is less common compared to recipients of allogeneic SCT, but its existence has been well documented. Similarly, the diarrheal component of the disease is highlighted when discussing its gastrointestinal (GI) manifestations, with less emphasis given to upper GI symptoms like nausea and vomiting. We prese...

Each day, the typical healthcare practice is challenged by several cases involving gastrointestinal (GI) complaints. Moreover, many conditions in which symptoms are not localized to the GI but may be systemic often involve an underlying GI dysfunction. For example, research has shown associations between compromised GI function and conditions as varied as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, metabolic...