Publications by authors named "Juan Francisco de Dios Vega"
Ischemic gastropathy is highly infrequent in daily medical practice. In the last few years, the number of reported cases has increased. Although the guiding symptom is usually abdominal pain, the clinical spectrum of the disease is highly variable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objective: Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) may have an increased risk of developing hepatitis B virus (HB) infection. Invasive procedures such as colonoscopies and surgery might be some of the reasons for this. Moreover, the use of immunosuppressors may reactivate a latent infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Placement of nasoenteral feeding tubes can require endoscopic support.
Aim: To analyze the usefulness of transnasal ultrathin endoscopy in the placement of nasoenteral feeding tubes.
Patients And Methods: We performed an ambispective study of all patients who underwent nasoenteral feeding (4.
Background: There is scant information on the use of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in patients under 18.
Objective: To analyze our experience in all patients under 18 who underwent ERCP.
Patients And Methods: We performed a retrospective study of all ERCP conducted in patients under 18 between 1993 and 2006.
Background And Objective: Abdominal pain and diarrhoea are common symptoms in the general population. The colonoscopy is the gold standard method of detecting an organic pathology in the colon. However, it is invasive; it can not be repeated frecuently; it is expensive; and the system is overloaded.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Biliary diseases represent particular diagnostic and therapeutic problems in elderly patients.
Methods: Patients 90 years of age or older who underwent ERCP from January 1993 to September 2001 were studied retrospectively.
Results: A total of 126 patients underwent 147 ERCP procedures (range 1-5 per patient).