Reflective Functioning in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Non-Affective Psychosis and Affective Disorders-Differences and Similarities.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), as part of the functional somatic syndromes, is frequent in the general population. Medical care and morbidity costs are high, and so is the psychological and somatic strain. The etiopathogenesis of IBS is still poorly understood; it is assumed to be multifactorial and to include biopsychosocial factors.

[First manifestation of a leucocytoclastic vasculitis in the colon: case report and differential diagnostic aspects].

This report presents a female patient suffering from chronic diarrhea, who developed palpable purpura on the lower extremities 8 weeks after onset of the gastrointestinal symptoms. Biopsies obtained from the colon and skin showed leukocytoclastic vasculitis. Possible triggers or underlying diseases could not be found, and the patient recovered without specific treatment for vasculitis.

[Pneumatosis intestinalis in anorexia nervosa: a case report].

Pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) is identified as the accumulation of gas within the wall of the small or large intestine. It was first described by Du Vernoi in 1783. The pathogenesis is supposed to be multifactorial.