A retrospective study of pregnant patients with acute pancreatitis.

Objective: Acute pancreatitis is a rare disease in pregnant patients. Although it may have serious maternal and fetal consequences, morbidity and mortality rates have decreased recently due to appropriate and rapid treatment with earlier diagnosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate pregnant patients diagnosed with acute pancreatitis.

Liver Stiffness Is Markedly Decreased After Chronic Hepatitis C Treatment.

Aim: The aim of the study was to demonstrate the liver stiffness (LS) change in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients obtained by elastography point quantification technique in before and after antiviral treatment (AVT).

Material And Methods: This prospective study included 84 patients diagnosed with CHC who had not previously received treatment for CHC and who had an indication for using direct-acting AVT. Necessary measurements were recorded with noninvasive liver fibrosis (LF) examinations.

Should lactate be added to Tokyo criteria for the evaluation of patients with acute cholangitis?

Background: Tokyo guidelines (TG13/18) are used for the severity assessment of acute cholangitis (AC). Lactate is a clinical marker of tissue hypoxia and disease severity, independent from blood pressure.

Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between blood lactate level and TG13/18 criteria in patients diagnosed with AC.

Serum Elabela level is related to endoscopic activity index in patients with active ulcerative colitis.

Background: In ulcerative colitis patients, Elabela levels and the relation of Elabela with laboratory parameters is unknown.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the serum Elabela levels in UC patients and its relationship with other clinical and laboratory findings.

Methods: Forty-three patients with UC and 40 healthy controls (group I) similar in age and gender were included in the study.

A cross-sectional study of real life data of HCV from Turkey south region.

Introduction: This study investigated demographic characteristics and the prevalence of viremia among anti-HCV-positive patients.

Methodology: Hospital records of adult patients with anti-HCV positivity between June 2016 and October 2018 were screened retrospectively. Demographic characteristics, genotype distribution, history of injection drug use (IDU), treatment data of HCV RNA-positive patients were investigated.

Combination of oral vancomycin and intra-colonic vancomycin: Successful treatment of complicated pseudomembranous colitis in a child patient.

The infection-related disease varies from mild diarrhoea to pseudomembranouscolitis. Although infection is commonly considered to be a hospital-acquired infection, a significant number of cases are community acquired. Community-acquired infection can exhibit itself as ileus or toxic megacolon.

subspecies engineered to produce mycosporin-like amino acids in colorectal cancer prevention.

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related death. The pathogensesis of colorectal cancer involves a multi-step and multi-factorial process. Disruption of the gut microbiota has been associated with gastrointestinal diseases such as colorectal cancer.

Update on the effect of age on acute pancreatitis morbidity: a retrospective, single-center study.

Introduction: Acute pancreatitis (AP) is one of the urgent diseases of gastroenterology. Due to the growth of the elderly population, the frequency of the disease in the elderly population is also increasing.

Aim: To evaluate the contributing factors of mortality in geriatric patients (age ≥ 65 years) and non-geriatric (age < 65 years) patients.

Retrospective analysis of cases with an ectopic opening of the common bile duct into duodenal bulb.

Background: Ectopic opening of the common bile duct (EOCBD) is a very rare entity. It has been reported in the 3rd or 4th portion of the duodenum, pyloric canal, duodenal bulb, and the stomach.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical characteristics, laboratory values and imaging studies of patients with EOCBD into the duodenal bulb retrospectively.

Comparison of prognostic systems in cirrhotic patients with hepatic encephalopathy.

Background/aim: There are various scoring systems for evaluating prognosis in patients hospitalized in intensive care units (ICUs) with hepatic encephalopathy. These include the Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) classification, Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD), chronic liver failure-sequential organ failure assessment (CLIF-SOFA), and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II). In this study, we aimed to compare the various scoring systems to determine the best system for showing the prognosis of patients with a prior diagnosis of cirrhosis who were hospitalized for hepatic encephalopathy.

New predictor of acute necrotizing pancreatitis: Red cell distribution width.

Background: Acute pancreatitis (AP) is inflammation of the pancreas of various severity ranging from mild abdominal pain to mortality. AP may be classified as acute interstitial edematous pancreatitis (AEP) or acute necrotizing pancreatitis (ANP), according to the revised Atlanta criteria. Most of the patients with AP are AEP (75-85% of patients), while 15-25% of patients have ANP.

Ulcerative colitis flare with splenic ven thrombosis.

Patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) have an increased risk of thromboembolic events. Here, we present a 28-year-old man with active ulcerative pancolitis presenting via splenic vein thrombosis and left renal superior infarct that was not associated with a surgical procedure.

Comparison of the efficacy of tenofovir and entecavir for the treatment of nucleos(t)ide-naive patients with chronic hepatitis B.

Background/aims: Chronic hepatitis B virus infection is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and entecavir were licensed for the treatment of hepatitis B virus infection. We evaluated the first 12 months of chronic hepatitis B treatments with tenofovir and entecavir and compared their efficiencies.

Anticholinergic syndrome and supraventricular tachycardia caused by lavender tea toxicity.

Lavender plants have been used for their cosmetic and biologic benefits for many centries. Extracts from Lavandula plants have been found to cause antimuscarinic effects by blocking sodium and calcium ion channels in in vitro and in vivo studies. We present a case of poisoning by ingestion of tea made from Lavender stoechas ( grass).

Prognostic markers in cirrhotic patients requiring intensive care: a comparative prospective study.

Introduction: The use of prognostic models for cirrhotic patients admitted to the medical intensive care unit (ICU) is of great importance, since they provide an objective evaluation for a group of patients with high mortality rates and high resource utilization.

Objective: To evaluate the validity and to compare the prognostic predictive value of the CTP, MELD, SOFA and APACHE II scoring systems in cirrhotic patients admitted to the ICU, the CTP and MELD models being exclusive for patients with liver disease.

Material And Methods: Commonly used predictors of mortality such as age, sex, CTP, MELD, APACHE II and SOFA were evaluated, and their prognostic value was investigated.

Analysis of PTEN, VEGF, HER2 and P53 status in determining colorectal cancer benefit from bevacizumab therapy.

Background: No factor has thus far been identified to predict the efficacy of bevacizumab therapy for colorectal cancer. We here therefore studied PTEN, VEGF, HER2 and p53 by immunohistochemistry as possible prognostic and predictive factors.

Materials And Methods: A total of 34 retrospectively collected tumor samples were evaluated, all from patients receiving bevacizumab-based regimens.

Relationship of CA 19-9 with choledocholithiasis and cholangitis.

Background/aims: It is well known that increased concentrations of CA 19-9 can be found in benign disease of the liver, pancreas and biliary tract, especially in cases with gallstone disease with cholangitis. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation of CA 19-9 with the number and size of the stones, cholangitis and biliary obstruction in patients with choledocholithiasis.

Methods: Seventy patients with radiologically proven choledocholithiasis were studied.