[Evaluation of endoscopic and histological activity as predictors of clinical relapse in ulcerative colitis].

Unlabelled: Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by a recurrent and remitting course. Clinical remission and mucosal healing are the current therapeutic goals in management. The histological remission could be a better objective because of its prognostic impact.

[Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of inflammatory bowel disease in a tertiary referral hospital in Lima-Peru].

Objective: To identify sociodemographic, clinical, and endoscopic characteristics in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Materials And Methods: The study period was from January 2004 to December 2014. The final diagnosis was determined by clinical gastroenterologists experienced in the diagnosis and management of IBD, based on internationally accepted diagnostic criteria.

[Rol of double-balloon enteroscopy in the management of small intestine diseases: experience in the National Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Lima, Peru].

Objective: Evaluate the diagnostic and therapeutic utility, safeness, efficacy and complications of double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE).

Material And Methods: This prospective, descriptive study of DBE took place between July 2010 and June 2015 at the service of Gastroenterology of Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen- Lima Peru. 129 DBE were performed in 121 patients with the Fujinon EN-450T5 double balloon enteroscope, with conscious sedation and with previous bowel preparation.

[Endoscopic removal by ERCP of Fasciola hepatica alive: two case reports and review of the literature].

We report two cases of biliary fascioliasis in patients from the highlands of Peru; with several months of symptoms characterized for biliary-type pain, dark urine and jaundice in one case. Both of them referred to the department of Gastroenterology of the Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen for suspicious of choledocolithiasis. Laboratory tests were performed which showed variable high levels of functional liver tests (cholestasis) and marked eosinophilia in one case.

[Double balloon enteroscopy in the management of small bowel disease: early experience in the Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen. Lima - Peru].

Objective: Evaluate the diagnostic and therapeutic utility, safeness, efficacy and complications of double balloon enteroscopy (DBE).

Methods: This prospective, descriptive study of DBE took place between July 2010 and November 2011 at Gastroenterology Service of Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen-EsSalud. 33 DBE were performed in 30 patients with a double balloon enteroscope: EN-450T5 Fujinon, under conscious sedation and with previous bowel preparation.