Inflammatory bowel disease secondary to treatment with ixekizumab in a patient with difficult-to-manage psoriasis.

Both psoriasis and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are immunomediated diseases. Some of their therapeutic tools are monoclonal antibodies. Ixekizumab is an interleukin-17 (IL-17) inhibitor approved for the treatment of psoriasis.

Hepatic focal lesions and constitutional syndrome, is it always cancer?

Hepatic focal lesions are a heterogeneous group of lesions that can be either benign or malignant in nature. They are typically diagnosed through ultrasound in all cases needing to rule out a metastatic nature. We present the case of a 51-year-old male from Morocco diagnosed with hepatic SOLs in the context of abdominal pain and constitutional syndrome.

Bleeding from gallbladder varices in a patient with an unknown liver cirrhosis. An exceptional entity.

Liver cirrhosis is a disease related to numerous severe complications such as portal hypertension or collateral circulation. Varices that are located outside the gastroesophageal region (ectopic varices) such as the anorectal region, colon, ileum or gallbladder are unusual. In many cases, they are related to the existence of portal vein thrombosis.

[Liver enzymes elevation: etiologic study and efficiency of a single-act office visit].

Background: Liver enzyme (LE) elevation is a common finding in routine blood analysis. There is very little information on the most prevalent causes of these alterations in our population. In addition, a number of tests and several visits to the specialist are required to reach a diagnosis.

[Metastatic Crohn's disease. Response to adalimumab dose intensification].

Inflammatory bowel disease is accompanied by extraintestinal manifestations in a high percentage of patients. Cutaneous lesions are the second most prevalent of these manifestations, and within these, metastatic Crohn's disease is one of the least common, being the least frequent specific cutaneous manifestation of Crohn's disease. This entity includes cutaneous and subcutaneous lesions with a non-caseating granulomatous appearance on histological analysis identical to that of Crohn's disease.