Rev Gastroenterol Peru
May 2024
Menetrier's disease represents a low prevalence clinical entity, characterized by complexity in its diagnosis, particularly due to the need to exclude its potential association with gastric cancer. In this context, we present the clinical case of a 54-year-old male with nonspecific gastrointestinal symptoms and hypoalbuminemia. During the upper endoscopy procedure, a noticeable thickening of gastric folds was observed, associated with multiple polypoid lesions in the stomach, predominantly in the fundus and body.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Little is known about the influence of psychiatric factors on the etiology of placental abruption (PA), an obstetrical condition that complicates 1-2% of pregnancies. We examined the risk of PA in relation to maternal psychiatric symptoms during pregnancy.
Methods: This case-control study included 373 PA cases and 368 controls delivered at five medical centers in Lima, Peru.