We present the case of a 29-year-old patient with multiple allergies, mild asthma and rhinoconjunctivitis who reported a history of esophageal impactions after ingestion of solid foods. These episodes resolved spontaneously at home and by self-induced vomiting and never required endoscopic removal. The patient presented to the emergency department due to a sensation of food impaction lasting more than 12 hours after eating meat the night before, which did not subside with the intake of liquids or self-induced vomiting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEsophageal, gastric and duodenal ulcers are found in immunocompromised patients due to virus, mainly cytomegalovirus (CMV), and less frequently Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), varicella zoster virus (VZV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 or 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The risk of colon cancer is greater in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) than in the general population. Chromoendoscopy with dye (CE) is the currently recommended method for detecting dysplasia in screening colonoscopies in IBD patients; however, the role of virtual chromoendoscopy (VC) is not yet well defined.
Objective: The object of this study was to compare CE and VC with the iSCAN 1 system in the detection of neoplastic lesions in IBD patients.
The effects of immunotherapy are numerous and are still being discovered. We present a case report of a patient who received dasatinib for chronic myeloid leukemia. A colonoscopy was performed due to a positive fecal occult blood test and colitis was observed.
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