Publications by authors named "Aziz Aourarh"
Article Synopsis
- Abdominal tuberculosis can be hard to diagnose because its symptoms are vague, often causing delays in treatment.
- A 48-year-old man was incorrectly diagnosed with a gastrointestinal tumor but actually had retroperitoneal pseudo-tumoral tuberculosis, leading to unnecessary surgery.
- Following proper diagnosis through pathology, the patient successfully received 6 months of antitubercular treatment, emphasizing the need for early biopsies to avoid such misdiagnoses.
Foreign bodies may be ingested accidentally or intentionally. Generally, they pass through the digestive tract without causing complications unless they become lodged. Patients often present with nonspecific clinical symptoms, and diagnosis is frequently delayed because they do not recall ingesting anything.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBurkitt lymphoma is a highly aggressive and rapidly growing B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma with heterogeneous pattern of manifestations. We present a rare case of a 39-year-old immunocompetent male with double localization of Burkitt lymphoma: gastroduodenal and ileal tract. The gastric location is extremely rare, and the association with another site is unusual with only few reports in the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiloma is a severe complication that can result from bile duct disruption or hepatic trauma. It can occur after biliary surgery such as cholecystectomy or an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography manipulation and endoscopic biliary sphincterotomy. We present the case of a 59-year-old man admitted for jaundice, with pain in his right flank and fever, 10 days after an endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) for an ill-defined pancreatic lesion, associated with an infected biloma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn Unusual Cause of Biliary Tract Obstruction: Lemmel Syndrome.
Clin Med Insights Case Rep
December 2021
Article Synopsis
- Lemmel syndrome is a rare cause of obstructive jaundice that occurs due to a duodenal diverticulum blocking the common bile duct, without the presence of gallstones or tumors.
- A 77-year-old woman with sepsis from cholangitis was diagnosed with Lemmel's syndrome after undergoing MRCP and gastroduodenoscopy, and she required surgical intervention due to failed endoscopic treatment.
- This syndrome is often overlooked because it lacks specific symptoms, but imaging techniques like MRCP are crucial for diagnosis, and endoscopy is typically the first treatment option.
Objective: To analyse the efficacy and safety of entecavir (ETV) treatment in nucleos(t)ide (NUC)-naïve Moroccan patients with chronic hepatitis B.
Methods: We retrospectively analysed 41 NUT-naïve Moroccan patients with chronic hepatitis B who received ETV 0,5 mg/day monotherapy for at least 3 months, of whom 3 were HBV envelope antigen (HbeAg) positive and 38 were HBeAg negative. The primary end point was the proportion of patients achieving virological response.
Introduction: Bronchogenic cysts are developmental anomalies of the primitive foregut which mostly occur in the lung. Gastric bronchogenic cysts are extremely rare; few cases have been reported in the literature and the diagnosis was often made following surgical resection.
Case Presentation: A 40-year-old North African man was admitted to our hospital with a gastric submucosal mass.