BACKGROUND Acute gastric volvulus is a surgical emergency that requires early recognition and treatment. Acute idiopathic mesenteroaxial gastric volvulus is a rare sub-type and there are few cases reported in children and there are even fewer reports in adults. CASE REPORT We report a rare case of a 23-year-old man who presented with a 1-day history of vomiting, epigastric pain, distention, a...

The isolation of recombinant cDNA clones expressing antigens found in Onchocerca volvulus infective larvae is described. To isolate such clones, an expression cDNA library constructed from adult 0. volvulus RNA was screened with antiserum raised against infective larvae. One clone, designated XRAL-1 was characterized further. The recombinant antigen produced by XRAL-1 stimulates proliferation o...

Cecal volvulus is a quite rare pathologic condition and therefore sometimes misdiagnosed, but is indeed more common than thought. It occurs with aspecific acute onset abdominal pain associated to nausea and vomiting, so that it often poses a diagnostic challenge for the clinician who needs radiological consultation for further evaluation. As cecal volvulus represents a cause of intestinal obstr...

BACKGROUND Cecal volvulus is an uncommon cause of acute abdomen in patients. Cecal volvulus is currently treated mostly with right hemicolectomy with laparotomy, which is an invasive surgical procedure. Less invasive techniques, such as endoscopic decompression, have a poor success rate. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of cecal volvulus in a 35-year-old male patient. He was successfully tr...

A 46-year-old woman presented to two emergency departments within 12 hours because of acute abdominal pain. Physical exam demonstrated tenderness and epigastric guarding. An ultrasound was interpreted as negative; she was discharged home. Later that evening, she was found dead. Postmortem exam revealed acute hemorrhagic necrosis of a segment of jejunum secondary to volvulus. Clinical clues sugg...

CONTEXT Wandering spleen is a rare medical entity in which the spleen is orphaned of its usual peritoneal attachments and thus assumes an ever wandering and hypermobile state. This laxity of attachments may even cause torsion of the splenic pedicle. Both gastric volvulus and wandering spleen share a common embryology owing to maldevelopment of the dorsal mesentery. Gastric volvulus complicating...

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE Midgut volvulus can rarely present with acute chylous peritonitis. Common etiologies for chylous ascites need to be excluded before this diagnosis is made. Correction of the volvulus and peritoneal lavage suffice as treatment.

Abstract Sigmoid volvulus is a frequent cause of intestinal obstruction. Its management has evolved with the use laparoscopic surgery, achieving an elective sigmoid resection anastomosis after flexible endoscopic detorsion. A female patient was admitted to emergency room abdominal pain, distention, and constipation. The computed tomography showed whirled mesentery in addition dilated loops, cof...

Numerous patients use to refer to emergency rooms everyday due to abdominal pain all over the world. One of the rare conditions, among the several etiologies in these patients, is gastric volvulus. This pathology, which occurs via rotation of the stomach around its own axis more than 1800, may cause acute abdomen as well as may be asympthomatic [1]. Diaphragmatic hernia, which is suggested as a...

Reports of a volvulus (twisting) of the sigmoid colon can be found in a papyrus from ancient Egypt. However, sigmoid volvulus represents a spectrum of disease across the globe from young men in central Africa to the elderly institutionalised patients in Western Europe and the USA. As the population ages the prevalence of sigmoid volvulus is likely to rise. As an acute presentation, it represent...