Fulminant colitis can be a sequelae of a number of conditions like Salmonellae, Shigella, E. Coli, Yersinia and other bacterial infections. Antibiotic associated pseudomembranous colitis is caused by clostridiuin difficle and can range from mild diarrhoea to fulminant colitis. Furthermore, chronic conditions like ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease can cause acute symptoms. Non-specific coli...

Acute colonic pseudo-obstruction is a poorly recognised and potentially fatal complication of hip surgery. Between 1991 and 1994 six patients were observed who required laparotomy after failure of medical management. In three the indication was signs of peritonism, while in the other three exploration was required to exclude segmental ischaemia and to decompress the bowel. In all, there was no ...

Duodenal and colonic duplication presenting as mass in a neonate is rare. We report a 52-cm-long tubular, total colonic and 5-cm-long cystic duodenal duplication in a two-day-old neonate. Both the duplications could be excised without resection of the normal bowel.

UNLABELLED The aim of the study was to assess (quantitatively) colonic hydrogen absorption. Hydrogen volumes in flatus and breath were measured over periods of six hours in normal subjects during fasting and after ingestion of the non-absorbable carbohydrate lactulose to simulate the effect of fermentable dietary fibres. If less than 76 ml/6 h of hydrogen accumulated in the colon then all of it...

We have recently demonstrated that the colon possesses at least 4 pacemakers which presumably generate electric waves and that colonic pacing evokes electric activity in colonic inertia. We tested the hypothesis that electric waves produced by artificial colonic pacing in colonic inertia patients may initiate colonic motilitiy and effect evacuation. 17 patients with constipation due to total co...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to review outcomes after surgical treatment of total colonic Hirschsprung's disease (TCH). METHODS Twenty-five records of patients with TCH treated between 1974 and 2002 were reviewed. Follow-up data were collected using a standardized questionnaire. Objective functional outcome was assessed using a scoring system. RESULTS Twenty patients had aganglionosis ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to review the 10 years' experience in the management of patients with total colonic aganglionosis (TCA) and follow-up of their health condition. METHODS Cases of 25 patients with TCA in the Children's Hospital of Fudan University from 1996 to 2005 were reviewed and analyzed. The confirmed diagnosis was established by an intraoperative frozen-section biopsy of...

Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) has been recently documented after a variety of laparoscopic surgeries. Although it is well established in splenectomies, its prevalence in other laparoscopic procedures is rare. PVT in colectomies has been associated with inflammatory processes, such as ulcerative colitis and diverticulitis. We report a case of postoperative PVT following a total abdominal colectom...

The pattern of metabolites produced by the gut microbiome comprises a phenotype indicative of the means by which that microbiome affects the gut. We characterized that phenotype in mice by conducting metabolomic analyses of the colonic-cecal contents, comparing that to the metabolite patterns of feces in order to determine the suitability of fecal specimens as proxies for assessing the metaboli...