Montreal classification of patient operated for Crohn's disease and identification of surgical recurrence predictors.

Objective: to evaluate Crohn's disease recurrence and its possible predictors in patients undergoing surgical treatment.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective study with Crohn's disease (CD) patients undergoing surgical treatment between January 1992 and January 2012, and regularly monitored at the Bowel Clinic of the Hospital das Clínicas of the UFMG.

Results: we evaluated 125 patients, 50.

Use of alloplastic meshes in abdominal wounds of rats with induced peritonitis.

Background: The use of alloplastic meshes has been historically contra-indicated in patients with infection.

Aim: To evaluate the use of polypropylene meshes in the treatment of abdominal wall defects in rats with peritonitis.

Methods: Twenty Wistar female rats were divided into two groups: induction of peritonitis (test group) and without peritonitis (control group).

Idiopathic encapsulating peritonitis: report of two cases.

This report presents two cases of young males who developed the rare idiopathic form of sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis (SEP) presented as partial bowel obstruction, both diagnosed during surgical treatment, with satisfactory outcomes. Sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis is a rare and enigmatic condition, characterized by intraperitoneal fibrosclerosis, which causes intestinal obstruction. It is a chronic entity with a poorly elucidated pathophysiology, leading to the constitution of a thick white nacreous fibrosis membrane that wraps the bowel in a concertina-like fashion with some adhesions configuring an intra-abdominal cocoon.