Is activation in inflammatory bowel diseases associated with further impairment of coronary microcirculation?

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] includes a number of chronic relapsing diseases. In IBD intestinal microvascular endothelial cells are damaged by an abnormal immune response. Several studies have shown that IBD may cause increment in risk of developing atherosclerosis.

Is there any association between colonic polyps and gastric intestinal metaplasia?

Background/aims: Chronic gastritis progression is a multistep process of atrophy, intestinal metaplasia (IM), and dysplasia, which may lead to invasive carcinoma. In this study, we identified an association of colonic polyps with gastric IM in patients undergoing colonoscopy.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective case-control, cross-sectional study was conducted in a tertiary-care institution in Turkey.

A Comparison of Five Different Treatment Regimens as the First-Line Treatment of Helicobacter pylori in Turkey.

Background: The H. pylori eradication success is low in countries with high antibiotic resistance to H. pylori.

A rare cause of acute Dysphagia: abscess of the base of the tongue.

Dysphagia represents a difficulty in passage of solid or liquid foods from the oral cavity into the stomach and is considered as an alarm symptom of gastrointestinal system. It often indicates an organic disease and needs to be explained. In this paper, a case of 61-year-old man with posterior tongue abscess is presented.

Impaired coronary microvascular and left ventricular diastolic function in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Background And Aim: Increased incidence of coronary vascular events in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is known. However, the association between coronary microvascular function and IBD has not been fully defined. We aimed to investigate whether coronary flow reserve (CFR) and left ventricular diastolic function were impaired in IBD patients.