Giant ileocolic intussusception in an adult induced by a double ileal lipoma: a case report with pathologic correlation.

Intussusception in adults is rare, accounting for less than 5% of all cases. Unlike the childhood variant, adult intussusception is often associated with a small bowel lesion acting as the "lead point." We herein report an uncommon case of giant intussusception secondary to 2 separate lipomatous lesions located in the ileum, in an adult admitted to our hospital for acute severe abdominal pain.

Coronary atherosclerosis burden is not advanced in patients with β-thalassemia despite premature extracardiac atherosclerosis: a coronary artery calcium score and carotid intima-media thickness study.

Background: Thalassemic patients demonstrate an increased rate of extracardiac vascular complications and increased carotid wall intima-media thickness (cIMT), but very low prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD). We investigated the atheroma burden by assessing the coronary artery calcium (CAC) and cIMT in these patients.

Methods: We examined 37 patients with β-thalassemia and 150 healthy control volunteers with multi-detector computer tomography (CT) and ultrasonography to determine CAC score and cIMT, respectively.

Vascular Complications Following Transradial and Transulnar Coronary Angiography in 1600 Consecutive Patients.

Background: Major, noncoronary complications are rarely encountered following transradial coronary procedures.

Methods And Results: Among 1600 prospectively studied patients with complete follow-up, 7 patients experienced major complications following coronary forearm procedures corresponding to an incidence of 0.44%.

Oval cell proliferation in cirrhosis in rats. An experimental study.

Aim: Oval cells are liver stem cells involved in liver regeneration following liver damage. Previous studies have shown that pretreatment with a hepatocyte inhibitor is required to allow full oval cell activation. This study investigates whether oval cells develop and proliferate in a model of experimental liver fibrosis without pretreatment with a known hepatocyte inhibitor.

A novel study investigating the therapeutic outcome of patients with lytic, mixed and sclerotic bone metastases treated with combined radiotherapy and ibandronate.

Purpose: To investigate the therapeutic response of patients with different types of bone metastases treated with combined radiotherapy and bisphosphonates.

Patients And Methods: By using computed tomography 52 patients were grouped into groups of lytic, mixed and sclerotic bone lesions. All patients were treated with concomitant radiotherapy and ibandronate (10 monthly cycles) and underwent clinical and radiological evaluations prior to therapy and at 3, 6 and 10 months of follow up.