Year 2015 / Volume 107 / Number 7

Editorial
399-401
Carlos Ferre-Aracil, Lara Aguilera-Castro, Enrique Rodríguez-de-Santiago, Ana García-García-de-Paredes and Antonio López-Sanromán
Intestinal microbiota likely represents the most complex organ in our body. It is estimated to include approximately 1014 independent living organisms comprising bacteria, archaea, fungi, and acellular...
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402-407
Ana Ponte, Rolando Pinho, Margarida Mota, Joana Silva, Nuno Vieira, Rosa Oliveira, Teresa Pinto-Pais, Carlos Fernandes, Iolanda Ribeiro, Jaime Rodrigues, Paulo Lopes, Tiago Teixeira and João Carvalho
Background and aims: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) constitutes an important cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Recurrence after first-line treatment with antibiotics is high and fecal microbiota...
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408-412
Sergio Estévez-Fernández, Raquel Sánchez-Santos, Esther Mariño-Padín, Sonia González-Fernández and Juan Turnes-Vázquez
Introduction: Given the difficulty in accessing to the excluded stomach after gastric bypass and the increase in gastroesophageal reflux after sleeve gastrectomy, it is justified to perform a preoperative...
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413-416
Diego Santos-Fagundes, Laura Grasa, Sergio Gonzalo, Marta Sofía Valero, Marta Castro, María Pilar Arruebo, Miguel Ángel Plaza and María Divina Murillo
Flavonoids are known to relax precontracted intestinal smooth muscle and delay intestinal transit or intestinal peristalsis. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of genistein and quercetin...
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417-422
Mercedes Rubio-Manzanares-Dorado, Luis Miguel Marín-Gómez, Daniel Aparicio-Sánchez, Gonzalo Suárez-Artacho, Carmen Bellido, José María Álamo, Juan Serrano-Díaz-Canedo, Francisco Javier Padillo-Ruiz and Miguel Ángel Gómez-Bravo
Introduction: The anatomical variants of the hepatic artery may have important implications for pancreatic cancer surgery. The aim of our study is to compare the outcome following a pancreatoduodenectomy...
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423-429
Alicia Díaz-Redondo, José Miranda-Bautista, Javier García-Lledó, Javier P. Gisbert and Luis Menchén
Background and aim: The presence of specific human leukocyte antigen-DQ2 and DQ8 seems to be necessary for celiac disease development, but the real contribution of its typing for screening is still uncertain....
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Review
430-435
Carlos Dolz-Abadía and Angels Vilella-Martorell
Submucosal chromoendoscopy involves the injection of a solution containing a vital stain, usually indigo carmine, into the intestinal wall submucosal layer. This allows to: Better delimit and characterize...
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436-437
Elvira Clavero-Fernández, José Souto-Ruzo, Pedro Alonso-Aguirre, Rebeca Suárez-Fuentetaja and Mónica Álvarez-Martínez
Endometrial cancer is the second most frequent gynaecologic tumour in Spain after breast cancer (1). For the majority of patients, the overall prognosis is positive because the cancer is diagnosed at an...
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438-439
João Santos-Antunes, Susana Lopes, Elsa Fonseca, Fátima Carneiro and Guilherme Macedo
A 24 years-old man without medical history was admitted due to weight loss, asthenia, anorexia, fever, and the appearance of multiple brownish nodules in the scalp, upper and lower limps and trunk, associated...
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440-441
Juan Francisco López-Caleya, Sebastián N. Contreras and Laura Martín-Rodrigo
In developed countries, such as Spain, parasitic infections have some interest in cases due to immigration, travel to endemic countries, and international adoptions.
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442-443
Tae Matsunaga, Hideki Kobara, Hirohito Mori, Shintaro Fujihara and Tsutomu Masaki
A 60-year-old man with familial colonic polyposis presented for screening upper GI endoscopy; he had previously undergone pancreato-duodenectomy because of Vater’s papilla cancer and total colectomy. Conventional...
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Notas
444-448
Antonio Dias-Pereira, Tito Correia, Pedro Amaro, Carlos Sofia and Paula Chaves
The presence of columnar epithelium in the esophagus is associated with two conditions: Barrett’s esophagus and heterotopic gastric mucosa. The former results from the metaplastic replacement of the normal...
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Notas
449-453
Luisa Castilla, Ángeles Rovirosa, Àngels Ginès, Mario Pages, Cristina Camacho, Cesar Quilis, Verónica Pereira, Joan Maurel and Albert Biete
Endoesophageal brachytherapy is a useful technique for the palliative treatment of dysphagia in advanced oesophageal cancer. This technique offers good results on dysphagia control and quality of life....
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Información Paciente
454
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
455-456
Carolina Guillén-Morales, Francisco Javier Jiménez-Miramón, Teresa Carrascosa-Mirón and José María Jover-Navalón
Dear Editor,Emphysematous gastritis is an infrequent cause of acute abdominal pain. Mortality ranges between 60-80%, requiring early diagnosis and intensive medical treatment to reduce morbidity and mortality....
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Letter to the Editor
456-457
José Silvestre, María del Mar Sánchez-Lauro, María del Mar Callejón, Aurora María Burgarolas, Francisco Cruz and Joaquín Marchena
Dear Editor,CT colonography or virtual colonoscopy is an increasingly used test for the screening of colon cancer, its use being supported by several meta-analyses. It can diagnose polyps greater than...
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Letter to the Editor
458-460
Luis Flores, Joana Ferrer, Mario Pages, Josep Ramírez, Josep Fuster and Juan Carlos García-Valdecasas
Dear Editor,Leiomyosarcoma of the inferior vena cava (IVC) is anextremely rare malignant tumor of the venous system and retroperitoneum (1). Retroperitoneal sarcomas may arise primarily from IVC or involve...
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Letter to the Editor
460-461
Juan Egea-Valenzuela, José Manuel Castillo-Espinosa, Fernando Alberca-de-las-Parras and Fernando Carballo-Álvarez
Dear Editor,We report the case of a 72 year-old male who was admitted presenting with abdominal pain, jaundice and fever, being made a diagnosis of acute cholangitis. In the previous weeks, he had suffered...
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Letter to the Editor
461-462
Dieter Morales-García, Ramón Castañera-González, Francisco José González-Sánchez, Mónica González-Noriega, Joaquín Alonso-Martín and Manuel Gómez-Fleitas
Dear Editor,Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency performed by the general surgeon, specially during training, and the main reason of surgical acute abdomen in western countries (1)....
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Letter to the Editor
462-463
Mehdi Pasalar, Maryam Firouzmandi and Mehdi Saberifiroozi
Dear Editor,Roesch-Ramos et al. assessed the association of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and dental erosions in a sample of 120 Mexican participants. They showed a significant relationship between...
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Letter to the Editor
463-464
Ignacio Marín-Jiménez, Ana Gutiérrez, Joaquín Hinojosa, Ingrid Ordás, Jordi Rimola and Asunción Torregrosa
Dear Editor,Recently your journal published a comprehensive review of the indications of the use of capsule endoscopy (CAEN) in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) (1). Also published in 2013 were the consensus...
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Letter to the Editor
464-465
Irati Aranburu, Agustín Castiella, Eva Zapata, Emma Izaguirre, José Luis Elorza, Leire Zubiaurre, Arantxa Iribarren, José Ignacio Asensio and Santiago Larburu
Dear Editor,Duplication cysts are uncommon congenital abnormalities of the gastrointestinal tract occurring anywhere from the mouth to the anus. The most common location is the ileum followed by the oesophagus,...
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