[Acute pancreatitis after treatment by celecoxib].

Drug-induced pancreatitis injury due to celecoxib, a first generation Cox-2 inhibitor, has been rarely reported. We describe one case of severe pancreatitis after treatment with celecoxib for 3 months in a woman. No aetiology has been found for pancreatitis.

Incidence and severity of non alcoholic and non biliary pancreatitis in a gastroenterology department.

Aims: Etiological investigations proposed for patients with acute pancreatitis have been evolving considerably these past few years, significantly limiting the number of cases labeled idiopathic. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of non alcoholic non biliary pancreatitis and identify causes, comparing severity by etiology.

Patient And Methods: This retrospective analysis included 108 patients managed from October 1996 to April 2005.

[Acute superior mesenteric vein thrombosis. A retrospective study of 9 patients].

Aim Of The Study: To determine diagnostic modalities and both immediate and long-term treatment of superior mesenteric venous thrombosis.

Patients And Methods: Retrospective study from 1997 to 2004 in two institutions concerning patients with superior mesenteric vein thrombosis.

Results: Nine patients (all males, mean age=55 years), were included.

[Cystic dystrophia of the duodenal wall with aberrant pancreas. Value of magnetic resonance imaging for diagnosis].

Background: Cystic dystrophy of the duodenal wall is characterized by the development of cysts in heterotopic pancreatic tissue localized in the duodenal wall. Diagnosis is difficult and endosonography is considered as the most useful investigation.

Case Reports: A 40-year-old man was hospitalized for abdominal pain triggered by ingestion of alcoholic beverages and for vomiting after food intake.

Assessment of gastric neuropathy using electrogastrography in asymptomatic diabetic patients. Correlation with cardiac autonomic neuropathy.

This study assessed gastric neuropathy in type 1 diabetes mellitus and its relationships with cardiac autonomic neuropathy. Fifty-four asymptomatic type 1 patients (43 +/- 12 years) and 15 healthy subjects participated in the study. Cutaneous electrogastrography (EGG) was recorded for 4 h before, during, and 4 h after the ingestion of a standard meal.

[Chronic diarrhea due to lymphocytic colitis treated with piroxicam beta cyclodextrin].

Background: Lymphocytic colitis is a chronic diarrhea syndrome with no endoscopically detectable anomaly and histological colonic lesions.

Case Report: A 52-year-old woman was hospitalized for chronic diarrhea. She experienced 10 to 30 liquid bowel movements per day.

[Mesenteric cystic lymphangioma].

Background: Cystic lymphangioma is an uncommon congenital malformation usually encountered in children and often discovered fortuitously.

Case Report: A 46-year-old man was hospitalized for acute alcoholic hepatitis with edematoascitic decompensation. The abdominal and pelvic CT scan showed homogeneous hepatomegaly and a tumoral process involving the terminal ileal loops without signs of occlusion or node enlargement.

[Diabetic autonomic gastric neuropathy: contribution of the electrogastrogram].

Objective: The aim of this study was to characterize the features of vegetative gastric neuropathy observed in diabetic patients based on surface electrogastrographic recordings.

Patients And Methods: An electrogastrogram was recorded over an 8 hour 30 minute period in 63 patients with asymptomatic insulin-dependent diabetes and in 15 non-diabetic controls. Normal the electrical frequency of the stomach is 2 to 4 cycles per minute (cpm).