Year 2015 / Volume 107 / Number 8

Editorial
467-468
Julio Iglesias-García and J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz
Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is a minimally invasive procedure with the ability to evaluate both gastrointestinal and extra-in- testinal diseases (1,2). The use of high-frequency sound waves provides with...
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469-475
Fernando M. Castro-Poças, Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, Tarcísio P. Araújo and Isabel Pedroto
Purpose: To characterize colon and rectum walls, pericolic and perirectal spaces, using endoscopic ultrasonography miniprobes.Methods: Sixty individuals (50% males), aged 18-80, were included. Using 12...
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476-482
Alessandra Cassana, Silvia Scialom, Eddy R. Segura and Alfonso Chacaltana
Background and aim: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is a major cause of hospitalization and the most prevalent emergency worldwide, with a mortality rate of up to 14%. In Peru, there have not been any...
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483-487
Martín Alejandro Guidi, Cecilia Curvale, Hui Jer Hwang, Julio César de-María, Esteban Promenzio, Fernando Ragone and Raúl Fernando Matanó
Background and purpose: Mid-size sphincterotomy associated with large balloon dilation is an alternative to wide sphincterotomy to remove complex lithiases. However, which of the two techniques is most...
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488-494
Martín Alejandro Guidi, Cecilia Curvale, Juan Viscardi, Hui Jer Hwang, Julio César de María, Esteban Promenzio, Fernando Ragone y Raúl Fernando Matanó
Background and objective: Both the endoscopic and the percutaneous approach are widely accepted for the drainage of hilar tumors. Our primary objective was to report on the effectiveness and complications...
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495-500
Enrique Pérez-Cuadrado-Robles, Pilar Esteban-Delgado, Blanca Martínez-Andrés, Luis Eduardo Zamora-Nava, José Luis Rodrigo-Agudo, Silvia Chacón-Martínez, Emilio Torrella-Cortes, Jamal Shanabo, Antonio López-Higueras, Eduardo Muñoz-Bertrán, Hacibe Hallal, Rafael Latorre, Octavio López-Albors, Federico Soria, Paloma Bebia-Conesa and Enrique Pérez-Cuadrado-Martínez
Background and aim: Capsule endoscopy and double- balloon enteroscopy are well-recognized procedures in obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, with many factors that may influence their diagnosis yield. The...
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Review
501-508
Javier Martínez-González, Sergio López-Durán, Enrique Vázquez-Sequeiros and Agustín Albillos-Martínez
BACKGROUNDGastric varices (GV) are less prevalent than esophageal ones. It has been estimated that GV are present in 8-15% of patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension. However, the prevalence of...
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509
Enrique Pérez-Cuadrado-Robles, Paloma Bebia-Conesa, Blanca Martínez-Andrés, Pilar Esteban-Delgado, Antonio López-Higueras and Enrique Pérez-Cuadrado-Martínez
CASE REPORTA 31-year-old woman was studied because of chronic ferro- penic anemia and colicky abdominal pain for many years. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed that revealed no mucosal changes,...
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510-511
Gabriel Carrilero-Zaragoza, Guillermo Carbonell-López-del-Castillo, Gema Ruiz-García, Juan Egea-Valenzuela, Paula Tomas-Pujante, Elena Iglesias-Jorquera, Josefa Parra-García, Antonio Sánchez-Torres, Elena Navarro-Noguera, Esther Estrella-Díaz and Luis Fernando Carballo-álvarez
An 82 year-old male was admitted to our hospital presenting rectal bleeding with hemodynamic and analytic compromise (hemo- globin: 7.3 g/dl). He had personal history of percutaneous closure of the left...
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Notas
512-514
Pedro Magalhães-Costa, Leopoldo Matos, Pedro Barreiro and Cristina Chagas
ABSTRACTTenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) is one of the first-line treatment options in chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Despite its efficacy in suppressing viral load and a high resistance barrier, long life...
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Información Paciente
515
Dolores Tardáguila García y Leopoldo López Rosés
La endoscopia se emplea cada vez con más frecuencia, tanto para diagnosticar como para tratar las enfermedades del aparato digestivo. Para su realización se requiere la introducción de tubos flexibles...
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Letter to the Editor
516-518
Alexandra Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Tamiolakis, Michael Papadakis, Eleni Moustou, Galateia Datseri and Maria Tzardi
Dear Editor,We present a case of a primary abdominal extra-gastrointes- tinal stromal tumor (E-GIST) in a 75-years-old female patient. E-GISTs are rare, non-epithelial, mesenchymal tumors arising from...
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Letter to the Editor
518-519
Irene González-Partida, Marta Hernández-Conde, Elba Llop-Herrera, Borja Oliva-del-Río, Marta López-Gómez, José Luis Calleja-Panero and Luis Abreu-García
Dear Editor,The most common cause of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is chronic liver disease.Although there are rare extrahepatic diseases that may pres- ent with hepatic encephalopathy as a clinical manifestation,...
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Letter to the Editor
519-520
Joaquín Carrasco-Campos, Santiago Mera-Velasco, Iván González-Poveda, Manuel Ruiz-López, José Antonio Toval- Mata, José Manuel Aranda-Narváez and Julio Santoyo-Santoyo
Dear Editor,Retrorectal tumors are an uncommon, heterogeneous group of lesions that occur in the presacral region. Both diagnosis and treat- ment represent a challenge for colorectal surgeons. They must...
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Letter to the Editor
520-521
Antonio Ríos, José Manuel Rodríguez, Pablo Carbonel and Pascual Parrilla
Dear Editor,BAX belongs to the Bcl-2 protein family and plays a vital role in the regulation of mitochondrial apoptotic pathway regulation in epithelial cells (1,2). It is frequently altered in tumors...
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Letter to the Editor
521-523
Helena León-Brito, Susana Oquiñena-Legaz, Rosa Iglesias-Picazo, María Fraile-González, Irene Aresté-Anduaga, M. Rosario Aznárez-Barrio, Antonio M. Pueyo-Royo and Ana C. Guerra-Lacunza
Dear Editor,Cowden syndrome (CS) or multiple hamartoma syndrome is a rare entity related to the PTEN gene. Its classic phenotype includes hamartomatous lesions in any localization – these patients have...
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Letter to the Editor
523
Joana María Riera-Llodrá, Antonio Rosell-Camps, Laia Ferrés-Ramis, Mercedes Guibelalde-del-Castillo, Sara Zibetti and Isabel Amengual-Antich
Dear Editor,We report the case of a 12-year-old patient that was taken to the ER because of epigastralgia for 15 days. He had no other relevant symptoms or history.As he had high-organicity pain (severe...
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