Causes, management, and prognosis of severe gastrointestinal bleedings in critically ill patients with pancreatic cancer: A retrospective multicenter study.

Background: Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is a leading cause of intensive care unit (ICU) admission in pancreatic cancer patients.

Aims: To analyze causes, ICU mortality and hemostatic treatment success rates of GI bleeding in pancreatic cancer patients requiring ICU admission.

Methods: Retrospective multicenter cohort study between 2009 and 2021.

Opioid Overdose and Serotonin Syndrome due to Gastric Bezoar in a Woman with Autism and Pica Behaviour.

We are presenting the case of a 38-year-old woman with nonverbal autism and intellectual disability, hospitalized in a neurobehavioural unit because of a pica behaviour for 3 years. During the hospitalization, the patient presented an episode of pain, agitation, restlessness, rhabdomyolysis, coma, tachycardia, hyperthermia, shivering, and diarrhoea. The main hypothesis raised was tramadol overdose because of the immediate antidote response to the injection of naloxone 0,4 mg/mL.

Drastic decrease of urgent endoscopies outside regular working hours during the Covid-19 pandemic in the paris area.

Background And Study Aims: The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly affected medical care. We surmise that the number of urgent endoscopies outside regular working hours in the Paris area decreased as a result. The objective of this study was to describe the observed number of acts during the 2020 mandatory period of home isolation, compared to the values in prior years and the expected value for 2020.

Endoscopic and histologic response to cyclosporine in ulcerative colitis and their impact on disease outcome: A cohort study.

Introduction: Cyclosporine (CsA) is an effective agent for treating patients with acute steroid-refractory ulcerative colitis (UC). The aim was to assess endoscopic and histologic responses to CsA and to determine their predictive value on UC outcome.

Patients And Methods: Consecutive UC patients who received intravenous CsA for an acute refractory UC were included when they had endoscopic assessments with biopsies at entry and, at CsA interruption in responders.