Year 2015 / Volume 107 / Number 6

Editorial
331-333
Cristina Carretero, César Prieto Frías and Miguel Muñoz Navas
Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) is defined as a recurrent or persistent bleeding where gastroscopy and colonoscopy studies fail to identify an origin, and represents approximately 5% of all digestive...
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334-339
Iolanda Ribeiro, Rolando Pinho, Adélia Rodrigues, Joana Marques, Carlos Fernandes and João Carvalho
Background: Capsule endoscopy is a first line examination to evaluate obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. The identification of factors associated with the detection of lesions by capsule endoscopy could...
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340-346
Javier A.-Cienfuegos, Jorge Baixauli, Carlos Pastor, Jorge Arredondo, Jesús Javier Sola, Leire Arbea, Ana Chopitea and José Luis Hernández-Lizoáin
Background: The standard treatment for locally advanced cancer of the rectum (LACR) and selective cases of stage IV disease is preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) followed by total mesorectal excision...
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347-353
Danila Guagnozzi, Alfredo J. Lucendo, Teresa Angueira, Sonia González-Castillo and José María Tenias
Background: Microscopic colitis has now emerged as a common cause of chronic diarrhoea, but its aetiology remains unknown. Some studies suggest that commonly prescribed drugs and other additional risk...
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354-358
Diego Burgos-Santamaría, Almudena Marinero, Carlos Miguel Chavarría-Herbozo, Teresa Pérez-Fernández, Teresa R. López-Salazar and Cecilio Santander
Background: Normal values for water-perfused esophageal high-resolution manometry have still not been established in our environment, despite its generalized use and the recommendation to determine reference...
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359-365
Julio Iglesias-García, Jose Lariño-Noia, Nicolau Vallejo-Senra, Daniel de-la-Iglesia-García, Ihab Abdulkader-Nallib and J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz
Background: Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) and biopsy (FNB) is considered a very accurate and safe tool for sampling extra-intestinal tumors. Standard echoendosocopes for...
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Review
366-373
José Antonio Uranga-Ocio, Sonia Bastús-Díez, Drissa Delkáder-Palacios, Noemí García-Cristóbal, Miguel Ángel Leal-García and Raquel Abalo-Delgado
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a group of diseases highly prevalent nowadays. Its different types produce very similar symptoms with acute and chronic complications. Amongst these, gastrointestinal (GI) dysmotility,...
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Elena Navarro Noguera, Fernando Alberca de las Parras, Juan Egea Valenzuela, Francisco Javier Álvarez Higueras, Esther Estrella Díez, Ana Pereñíguez López, Eduardo Sánchez Velasco, Gabriel Carrilero Zaragoza, Roxana Elisabeth Jijón Crespín and Luis Fernando Carballo Álvarez
Gastroduodenal artery aneurysm is a rare condition, with difficult diagnosis and high morbidity and mortality rates. The presenting symptoms are variable and include unspecifi c epigastric pain, nausea,...
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375-376
Carmen Muñoz-Villafranca, Íñigo García-Kamirruaga, Pilar Gómez-García, Víctor Atín-del-Campo, Victoria Bárcena-Robredo, Alexander Aguinaga-Alesanco and Ángel Calderón-García
Pseudoaneurysm of the cystic artery is a very rare entity; only a few cases have been reported in the literature (1).We present the case of a 74-year-old male admitted for pain in the right lower quadrant...
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377
Samuel Costa, Vera Costa Dias, Paula Peixoto, Artur Machado and Raquel Gonçalves
A 65-years-old man with a history of alcoholic liver cirrhosis and gastric peptic ulcer was medicated with esomeprazol and lactulose. Due to intolerance to propranolol, he was referred to our institution...
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378-379
Hideki Kobara, Hirohito Mori, Kazi Rafiq, Shintaro Fujihara and Tsutomu Masaki
An 86-year-old man presented with a positive fecal occult blood test. Colonoscopy revealed a 25-mm laterally spreading tumor near the diverticula located in the ascending colon (Fig. 1). Magnifying endoscopy...
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Notas
380-383
José Carlos Marín-Gabriel, Esperanza Martos-Vizcaíno, José Díaz-Tasende, Marina Alonso-Riaño, Mercedes Pérez-Carreras, Sarbelio Rodríguez-Muñoz, Andrés J. del-Pozo-García, Francisco Colina-Ruizdelgado and Gregorio Castellano-Tortajada
Subepithelial gastric tumours comprise a heterogeneous group of lesions. Endoscopic ultrasonography with fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) is a useful approach but cannot always offer a definitive diagnosis...
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Notas
384-388
Xiaoqin Liu, Jing Li†, Wenqing Yao, Wenyan Zhang, Kai Shen, Xu Cui and Hao Wu
Epstein-Barr virus-positive T/NK-cell lymphoproliferative disorder (EBV+T/NK-LPD) is a continuous spectrum of diseases that share a common feature observed in T cells and NK cells: Excessive lymphoid proliferation....
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Información Paciente
389
Iván Guerra y Fernando Bermejo
¿QUÉ SON?Los fármacos biológicos son un tipo de medicamentos producidos a partir de un organismo vivo que son útiles en pacientes con enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal (enfermedad de Crohn y colitis ulcerosa)...
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Letter to the Editor
390-391
Ana Isabel Louro-da-Ponte, Rolando Taveira-Pinho, Maria Adélia Rodrigues, Maria Teresa Pinto-Pais, Carlos Daniel Pinho-Fernandes, Iolanda Cristina Ribeiro, Joana Isabel Silva and João Rodrigues-Carvalho
Dear Editor,The authors present a 42-year-old man with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) diagnosed in 1993, who presented with melena and hematemesis. After endoscopic investigation, the patient was referred...
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Letter to the Editor
391
Zhongzhi Jia, Shaoqin Li and Guomin Jiang
Dear Editor,Moreno-Machuca et al. (1) reported on their experience for treatment of isolated dissection of the superior mesenteric artery (IDSMA). Congratulations on their experience. They raised an important...
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Letter to the Editor
392-393
Jing Bo Yang and De Liang Liu
Dear Editor,Splenosis is an infrequent acquired condition in which nodules of splenic tissue are transplanted in the peritoneal cavity due to splenic trauma or splenectomy (1). This letter to the editor...
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Letter to the Editor
393-394
Carmen Payá-Llorente, Gonzalo Garrigós-Ortega, Aleix Martínez-Pérez, Ramón Trullenque-Juan and Ernesto Amañanzas-Villena
Dear Editor,We present the case of a 67-year-old male with medical history of umbilical hernial surgery, who was admitted to the emergency department with a one-day history of intense epigastric pain.Preliminary...
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Letter to the Editor
394
Maria João-Magalhães, Paula Lago and Isabel Pedroto
Dear Editor,Different autoimmune disorders can coexist in one patient, however concomitant idiopathic systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and Crohn’s disease (CD) is seldom (1,2). Even rarer is the association...
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Letter to the Editor
394-396
María Díaz-Tobarra, Marina Garcés-Albir, David Moro-Valdezate and Joaquín Ortega-Serrano
Dear Editor,We present a case of acute abdomen with hemoperitoneum and high gastrointestinal bleeding due to a hemocholecyst.
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Letter to the Editor
396-397
Marcos Pozo, Gabriel Herrera-Almario, Fernando Arias and Paula Rodriguez-Urrego
Dear Editor,Primary tumors of the appendix represent approximately 0.4% of all gastrointestinal tract tumors (1) and are usually incidentally found in about 1% of appendectomies (2) with collision tumors...
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Letter to the Editor
397-398
Anna Serracant-Barrera, Heura Llaquet-Bayo, Jordi Sánchez-Delgado, Andreu Romaguera-Monzonis, Blay Dalmau-Obrador, Natàlia Bejarano-González, Ana María Navas-Pérez, Eva Llopart-Valdor, Francisco Javier García-Borobia and Salvador Navarro-Soto
Dear Editor,Currently, pylephlebitis (septic thrombophlebitis of the porto-mesenteric veins) and liver abscesses are exceptional complications of acute advanced appendicitis.
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