Adenoma Detection before and after the age of 50: a retrospective analysis of Lebanese outpatients.

Background And Aim: Colorectal cancer (CRC) has an increased impact on the Lebanese population's morbidity and mortality. This study evaluated the situation of adenoma detection in an outpatient clinic in Lebanon.

Patients And Methods: 918 patients underwent colonoscopy over a period of 24 months by a qualified physician.

Toothpick ingestion and migration into the liver through the colonic hepatic flexure: case presentation, management, and literature review.

The approach to toothpick ingestion and its complications should not be underestimated. The surgeon should be prepared for life-threatening situations such as major vascular involvement, as well as highly specialized and technically challenging procedures, when the hepatic hilum is involved for instance. Referral to tertiary centers is sometimes mandatory.

Results from a retrospective analysis of colonoscopies for Inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer in a Lebanese tertiary care centre.

Background And Aims: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) and colorectal cancer have an increased impact on the Lebanese population's morbidity and mortality. This study evaluated the situation of IBD and colorectal cancer at a tertiary hospital centre in Lebanon.

Methods: 1007 patients underwent colonoscopy over a period of 12 months by qualified physicians.

Liver hydatid cyst with cutaneous fistulization to the right breast: a case report, management, and literature review.

is the most common tapeworm causing hydatid disease in humans. Its least-encountered complication is cutaneous fistulization. Omentoplasty, cyst, and fistulous tract drainage revealed successful in the management of this complication.

A case of reversible hyperoxaluria nephropathy early after roux-en-y-gastric bypass induced by vitamin C intake.

Roux-en-y-gastric bypass (RYGB) is the most commonly performed bariatric procedure worldwide which is taking the lead in resolving of comorbid conditions. Short- and long-term complications of RYGB procedure have been recognized, including osteopenia, osteomalacia and more rarely neurological disorders. Oxalate nephropathy is a complication of RYGB that has been described earlier in the literature and may end with renal failure and dialysis if not recognized and treated early.

Wernicke's encephalopathy three weeks after sleeve gastrectomy.

Following bariatric surgeries for management of morbid obesity, less nutrients are absorbed, giving rise to complications due to vitamin deficiencies with frequently dramatic consequences. Neurologic complications resulting from folate, vitamin B12, and thiamine deficiencies have been estimated to occur in up to 16% of cases and present within weeks to months following bariatric surgery. Among bariatric surgeries, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass has been the most associated with such deficiencies due to both restrictive and malabsorptive components.