Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was thought to have respiratory symptoms as the main manifestation, but it has become clear that extrapulmonary symptoms such as gastrointestinal disorders also occur. There are several reports of intussusception associated with COVID-19 in children, but these are rare in adults. In this report, we present a case of cystic intestinal duplication that enlarged during the course of COVID-19 treatment and resulted in intussusception.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin J Gastroenterol
February 2019
Immune checkpoint inhibitors may have different clinical effects compared with conventional anticancer drugs. An 85-year-old male received chemotherapy for recurrent gastric cancer. As liver metastasis progressed, nivolumab was introduced as a fourth line treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 32-year-old woman was found to have a gastric adenocarcinoma with multiple bone metastases. Chemotherapy in the first, second and third-line was not effective. Blood examinations showed disseminated intravascular coagulation(DIC)at the end of the second-line chemotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of a modified administration schedule of docetaxel, cisplatin, and fluorouracil (mDCF)in patients with advanced gastric cancer with gastrointestinal stenosis in clinical practice.
Methods: In the chemotherapy-naïve patients who had metastatic or recurrent histologically confirmed gastric cancer, docetaxel(40mg/m2), levofolinate(200mg/m / / / 2), fluorouracil(400mg/m2)on day 1, fluorouracil 1,000 mg/m2d-2 days intravenous continuous in fusion beginning on day 1, and cisplatin(40mg/m2)on day 3 was administered every 2 weeks.
Results: Six patients received mDCF therapy.