INTRODUCTION: Intestinal obstruction due to flanges is common in patients with a surgical history. OBJECTIVE: Describe a clinical case with adherenciolysis. Surgery could not be performed, so pneumoperitoneum was used as pre-conditioning for elective surgery.
CLINICAL CASE: Patient with intestinal obstru...
A case report focused on imaging aspects of an aorto-enteric fistula (AEF) in a 39-year-old patient with a recent diagnosis of classic Hodgkin Lymphoma with multiple enlarged retroperitoneal lymph nodes. AEF is a pathologic communication between the aortic lumen and any portion of the gastrointestinal tr...
Enterovesical fistula (EVF) is a fistulous communication between the intestine and the bladder. It is uncommon and its classic clinical manifestations are the presence of pneumaturia, fecaluria, suprapubic pain and recurrent urinary infections. Surgical repair of EVF leads to rapid correction of both dia...
Primary aortoenteric fistula is the spontaneous communication between the lumen of the aorta and a portion of the digestive tract. The most common cause is the erosion of an abdominal aortic aneurysm into the 3rd or 4th portion of the duodenum. It manifests clinically as gastrointestinal bleeding, with o...
Resumen Introducción Las fístulas aorto-entéricas (FAE) son una causa infrecuente de hemorragia digestiva. El pronóstico, generalmente ominoso, depende de una alta sospecha clínica y diagnóstico oportuno. Caso clínico Reportamos el caso de una mujer de 66 años intervenida por un aneurisma sac...
INTRODUCCIÓN: La enfermedad diverticular de colon sigmoides representa la principal causa de fistulización del colon a órganos vecinos. OBJETIVO: Describir variables clínicas y terapia quirúrgica de esta entidad. MATERIALES Y MÉTODO: Revisión retrospectiva de los casos de fístulas colónicas de...
ABSTRACT The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease in the pediatric population has increased in the last years. The most common form of inflammatory bowel disease is Crohn's disease and, according to its form and age of presentation, it is possible to predict the evolution of the disease....
As doenças inflamatórias intestinais (DIIs) compreendem, principalmente, a doença de Crohn (DC) e a retocolite ulcerativa (RU), ambas idiopáticas, porém relacionadas a uma resposta imunológica anormal à microbiota bacteriana da luz intestinal. Na RU a inflamação é difusa, restrita à mucosa e i...
