Granulomatous colitis is a chronic transmural disease of unknown etiology gastro-intestinal tract. It can affect any area the GI In recent decades, there has been an increase in number cases disease, which be explained by improvement diagnostic methods on one hand, and deterioration environmental factors other hand. The main intestinal complications granulomatous are: obstruction, perforation, ...

We report a case of a chronic hemodialysis patient who developed hypermagnesemia due to an overdose of magnesium-containing laxative and paralytic ileus resulting in colonic perforation. Despite intravenous calcium infusion and daily hemodialysis, the patient developed ischemic colitis and intestinal perforation. Colonic perforation accompanied with hypermagnesemia in hemodialysis patients has ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the cause, presentation, anatomical distribution, diagnostic method, management and outcome of intestinal injuries from blunt abdominal trauma. METHODS The study included 47 patients who underwent laparotomy for intestinal injuries from blunt abdominal trauma over a period of 4 years. A retrospective study was conducted and the patients were analyzed with respect to th...

Foreign body ingestion is a common problem in children, but magnet ingestion is relatively rare. However, when it occurs, it tends to have a high rate of complications. This is a case report of a 3-year-old child who swallowed multiple magnetic toys, subsequently developing jejunoileal perforation and volvulus. This case report indicates that it is best to surgically remove multiple ingested ma...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) has a vital role in the diagnosis and management of various biliary and pancreatic diseases but is also associated with adverse events. Commonly seen complications are pancreatitis, bleeding, cholangitis, cholecystitis, postspinchterotomy strictures and perforation. Migration of stents, which is more with plastic stents, is a well-known comp...

Although intestinal metastases from lung cancer are not rare at postmortem studies, the development of clinically significant symptoms from the gastrointestinal metastases is very unusual. We report a case of small intestinal hemorrhage leading to intestinal perforation secondary to metastases from a large cell carcinoma of the lung in a 31-year-old man along with a review of the literature.

Isolated jejunal perforation due to blunt abdominal trauma is a rare clinical condition and it may be easily unnoticed during the first examination or radiological studies, so that a delay in diagnosis is common. We present a case with isolated jejunal perforation after a blunt abdominal trauma which was not diagnosed at the first examination in the emergency department. The initial radiologica...

p eyer's patches have been thought of as areas of weakness in the intestinal wall since they were first noted in hog intestine used as casings for sausages (1). Butchers noted little bulging areas of decreased tensile strength in some regions of the casings, which were attributed to hogs swallowing too much air. These intestinal "glands" were mentioned by Hippocrates, and in 1677, Johann Conrad...

Jejunal diverticula are rare and the condition remains mostly asymptomatic. However, they can present with vague chronic abdominal symptoms and, in some cases, acute life-threatening complications, such as gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, bowel obstruction and perforation. We describe the clinical case of a 65-year-old female patient with a diagnosis on hospital admittance of acute abdomen and a...