Prevalence and Determinants of Gastrointestinal Manifestations in Patients with Selected Rheumatologic Diseases.

Background: Many rheumatic diseases may cause gastrointestinal manifestations. The goal of this study was to analyze the prevalence and predictors of gastrointestinal involvement in patients with rheumatic disorders.

Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, and sys- temic sclerosis who have consulted due to gastrointestinal symptoms.

Chronic liver disease in a patient with sickle cell anemia.

Various disorders of the hepatobiliary system can occur due to sickling in patients with sickle cell anemia. Pathology and frequency of these disorders are not clearly known. Liver biopsies of these patients show erythrocytosis, erythrophagocytosis, sinusoidal dilatation and hyperplasia in Kupffer cells.

Correlation of clinical and histopathological with endoscopic findings of celiac disease in the Turkish population.

Endoscopic findings have been described for the diagnosis of celiac disease but the relationship among the clinical presentation, endoscopic markers, and the degree of histopathological findings is not clear. Thirty patients who were thought to have celiac disease were included in this study. Biopsies taken from the duodenum were examined histopathologically.

Lymphoscintigraphy in detection of the regional lymph node involvement in gastric cancer.

Introduction: Involvement of regional lymph node is a critical sign in prognosis of gastric cancer. Radiological techniques are commonly used to evaluate the extension of gastric cancer. But their sensitivity and specificity are low especially in the early stage.

Chronic liver disease in a patient with sickle cell anemia.

Various disorders of the hepatobiliary system can occur due to sickling in patients with sickle cell anemia. Pathology and frequency of these disorders are not clearly known. Liver biopsies of these patients show erythrocytosis, erythrophagocytosis, sinusoidal dilatation and hyperplasia in Kupffer cells.

Coeliac crisis in adults: report of two cases.

Adult coeliac disease, in contrast to its childhood counterpart, almost always has an indolent course with a wider spectrum of clinical manifestations. Approximately half of the patients have no overt gastrointestinal symptoms and many are asymptomatic. A rare and life-threatening complication, affecting mainly children younger than 2 years of age, is the so-called coeliac crisis, a term that applies to profuse diarrhoea leading to dehydration, hypokalemia, and acidosis.

Crohn's disease with isolated esophagus and gastric involvement.

Isolated esophagus and stomach involvement in Crohn's disease is rather rare. We present here a female patient aged 35 years, who presented with complaints of fatigue, difficulty in swallowing, nausea, and vomiting, and who was diagnosed as esophago-gastric Crohn's disease.