[Intestinal failure due to short bowel syndrome: impact of a multidisciplinary intestinal rehabilitation program].

Background: In patients suffering intestinal failure due to short bowel, the goal of an Intestinal Rehabilitation Program is to optimize and tailor all aspects of clinical management, and eventually, wean patients off lifelong parenteral nutrition.

Aim: To report the results of our program in patients suffering intestinal failure.

Patients And Methods: A registry of all patients referred to the Intestinal Failure unit between January 2009 and December 2015 was constructed.

[Benefit of adjuvant 5-fluorouracil based chemotherapy for colon cancer: a retrospective cohort study].

Background: Multiple clinical trials have demonstrated the benefits of adjuvant 5-fluorouracil-based chemotherapy for patients with resectable colon cancer (CC), especially in stage III.

Aim: To describe the clinical characteristics of a cohort of CC patients treated at a single university hospital in Chile since 2002, and to investigate if chemotherapy had an effect on survival rates.

Material And Methods: Review of a tumor registry of the hospital.

[Treatment of a severe Clostridium difficile infection with colonic lavages. Report of one case].

A loop ileostomy with intraoperative anterograde colonic lavage has been described as an alternative to colectomy in the management of cases of Clostridium difficile infection refractory to medical treatment. We report a 69 years old diabetic women admitted with a septic shock. An abdominal CAT scan showed a pan-colitis that seemed to be infectious.