Is ileocecal valve intubation essential for routine colonoscopic examination?

Background: In this study, we aimed to assess the diagnostic yield of terminal ileum intubation during routine colonoscopy.

Materials And Methods: We routinely performed terminal ileum intubation in all patients who underwent colonoscopy at Dokuz Eylul University Hospital between February 2014 and June 2015. Two gastroenterology fellows performed colonoscopies in the Central Endoscopy Unit.

Evaluation of early atherosclerosis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Background: Data regarding early atherosclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease are limited and conflicting results are present.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to evaluate serological and sonographical evidence of subclinical vascular involvement in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Methods: Thirty-nine patients with inflammatory bowel disease (20 Crohn's disease, and 19 ulcerative colitis patients) and 31 healthy controls were consecutively enrolled in the study.

Does glucagon like peptide-2 receptor expression have any effect on the development of human colorectal cancer?

Background/aims: Glucagon like peptide-2 may play an important role in human colon cancer and polyp development because of its proliferative and antiapopitotic effects especially in colon. In this study, we investigated the role of human glucagon like peptide and it's receptor in development of human colorectal carcinogenesis.

Material And Methods: The study includes 30 patients in colon cancer group and 20 patients in colonic polyp group who have been diagnosed by endoscopic and pathologic examination in Dokuz Eylül University, Department of Gastroenterology within 2 year-period.

A case of angiographically verified non-occlusive mesentery ischemia induced by digitalis.

Here we present a case of non-occlusive mesentery ischemia induced by digitalis, which was verified angiographically. Nonocclusive mesentery ischemia, a subgroup of "acute mesentery ischemia", is known as a period of intestinal ischemic hypoperfusion without a demonstrable vascular occlusion in the mesentery bed. It can be caused by factors leading to splanchnic hypoperfusion, which can be of cardiac, renal or hepatic origin.

Diffuse gastrointestinal involvement of mantle cell lymphoma.

The gastrointestinal tract is the predominant site of appearance of extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphomas. The most frequent endoscopic finding of mantle cell lymphoma is multiple lymphomatous polyposis, which is a very rare entity. Multiple lymphomatous polyposis is characterized by multiple polypoid lesions involving long segments of the gastrointestinal tract and it accounts for 2% of primary gastrointestinal tract lymphomas.

Reticulated platelet levels in patients with ulcerative colitis.

Background And Aims: In this study, we investigated whether reticulated platelets (RP) would be useful markers in the evaluation of ulcerative colitis (UC) activity and also aimed to gain indirect information about the platelet kinetics.

Materials And Methods: Complete blood count, C-reactive protein, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and proportion of RP were measured in 16 active, 21 inactive UC patients, and 20 healthy blood donors. UC activity was assessed by Truelove-Witts criteria.

The development of pulmonary adenocarcinoma in a patient with Job's syndrome, a rare immunodeficiency condition.

The hyperimmunoglobulin E (HIE) (Job's) syndrome often has it onset in childhood and is characterized by markedly elevated serum IgE levels, chronic dermatitis and recurrent pyogenic infections. Lymphoid malignancies have most commonly been associated with this syndrome while the first case in the literature of carcinoma associated with HIE syndrome was a squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva, described by Clark et al. in 1998.