Editorial
Enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal. Nuevos modelos de atención
577-578
Ana Echarri Piudo,
El modelo de abordaje de la enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal (EII) se ha modificado, estableciéndose un paradigma con términos que definen nuevas estrategias y percepciones. El número actual de la Revista...
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The main determinants of disability in IBD and its relationship to optimism
579-585
Juliana M. Costa, Diana Matos, Bruno Arroja, Raquel Gonçalves, João B. Soares,
Background and aim: inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a potentially disabling chronic disease that negatively affects many aspects of the patients’ life. This study aimed to assess the IBD-associated...
Original
Development and validation of the QUECOMIICAT questionnaire: a tool to assess disease-related knowledge in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
586-592
Francesc Casellas, Ester Navarro, Paloma Amil, Claudia Barber, Laura Marín, Jordi Guardiola, Eloy Espín, Empar Sainz, Xavier Aldeguer, Marta Gallego, Francsica Murciano, Esther García-Planella, Javier Martín-de-Carpi, Juan Manuel Mendive, Assumpció González-Mestre,
Introduction: adequate knowledge of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is essential for a successful patient-centered management of IBD.
Objective: due to the scarcity of up-to-date tools for measuring IBD...
Original
Treat to target in inflammatory bowel disease: a survey of treatment strategies amongst Portuguese doctors
593-597
Sónia Bernardo, Samuel R. Fernandes, Luís Araújo-Correia,
Background: treatment goals in inflammatory bowel disease have changed over the last few years and have shifted from a mainly symptom-based management to objective endpoints, such as mucosal healing and...
Original
Relationship between the polyp detection rate and the post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer rate
598-602
Violeta María Sastre Lozano, Senador Morán Sánchez, José García Solano, Pablo Conesa Zamora, Guadalupe Ruiz Merino,
Aim: the adenoma detection rate is the quality indicator of colonoscopy that is most closely related to the development of interval colorectal cancer or post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer. However, the...
Original
Prehabilitation in patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy: a randomized controlled trial
603-608
Fabio Ausania, Paula Senra, Reyes Meléndez, Regina Caballeiro, Rubén Ouviña, Enrique Casal-Núñez,
Introduction: prehabilitation has been proposed as an effective tool to prevent postoperative complications in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery. However, no studies have demonstrated its effectiveness...
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Supervivencia y morbimortalidad del adenocarcinoma de páncreas tratado con duodenopancreatectomía cefálica con extirpación total del mesopáncreas
609-614
Pablo Sánchez Acedo, Javier Herrera Cabezón, Cruz Zazpe Ripa, Antonio Tarifa Castilla,
Introducción: el adenocarcinoma de páncreas es la neoplasia maligna más frecuente del área periampular; con una supervivencia a cinco años, se sitúa en torno al 20%.
Objetivo: el objetivo de nuestro estudio...
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Geographic analysis and estimation of hepatitis C cases in migrant populations living in Spain: is a country-based screening strategy appropriate?
615-625
María Esther Alarcón Linares, Alberto Torres Cantero, Carme Subirá, Oriana Ramírez Rubio, Javier Crespo, Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Ana Requena-Méndez,
Background: Spain needs to increase the number of new known cases in order to achieve the goal of eliminating hepatitis C virus (HCV) by 2030. The aim of this study was to estimate the number of HCV cases...
Original
HCV eradication with all-oral therapy in cirrhotic HIV-coinfected patients: an observational study of early changes in liver function and fibrosis tests
626-632
Lourdes Domínguez Domínguez, Mariano Matarranz, María Lagarde, Otilia Bisbal, Asunción Hernando, Carlos Lumbreras, Rafael Rubio, Federico Pulido,
Introduction: liver laboratory tests improve in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-monoinfected and cirrhotic patients who achieve HCV cure after interferon-free treatment.
Objective and methods: this study evaluates...
Artículo Especial
La calidad en ecografía digestiva: un aspecto que urge consensuar
633-636
Eva Marín-Serrano,
La ecografía digestiva (ED) es una técnica pendiente de ser implantada en la mayoría de servicios de Aparato Digestivo (AD) de nuestro país, en buena parte debido a los problemas que el especialista de...
Imagen en Patología Digestiva
Spontaneous splenoazygos shunt in a patient with portal hypertension: an exceedingly rare occurrence
637-638
Filipa Figueiredo, João Costa, Raquel Lameiras, Miguel Ramalho,
We present a case of a spontaneous splenoazygos shunt in a patient with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension, detected by abdominal magnetic resonance imaging. Multiplanar reconstruction demonstrated...
Imagen en Patología Digestiva
Pancreatic enzyme replacement for refractory multiple large pancreatic cysts
639-640
De-Feng Li, Jun Yao, Zhao-Shen Li, Yu Bai,
The case was a 47-year-old male with a long history of alcohol abuse but he had stopped drinking alcohol after the first attack of acute pancreatitis. He was referred due to recurrent pancreatitis complicated...
Caso Clínico
Life-threating diarrhea and acute renal failure secondary to pancreatic VIPoma treated by surgery
641-643
María Lapeña Rodríguez, Rafael Cholvi Calduch, Elena Muñoz Forner, Marina Garcés Albir, Luis Sabater Ortí,
Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors represent less than 5% of all pancreatic tumors. They are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms with a diverse behavior and prognosis. Pancreatic vasoactive intestinal polypeptide...
Caso Clínico
Successful management of anemia with sirolimus in blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome: update
643-647
Marta Fernández Gil, Pilar López Serrano, Elena García García,
Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome (BRBNS) is a rare disorder with characteristic skin hemangiomas and vascular malformations, mostly in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
The GI lesions are mainly located...
Carta Científica
Primer caso documentado de infección colónica por Candida glabrata
648
Rita Jiménez Rosales, Catalina Ana Belén Ayuso Carrasco, Manuel Ojeda Hinojosa,
La infección del tracto gastrointestinal inferior causada por las especies de Candida es una entidad extremadamente rara y, hasta la fecha, Candida albicans y tropicales han sido los únicos patógenos identificados....
Carta Científica
A rare cause of rectal bleeding
648-649
Ana Santos, Armando Peixoto, Guilherme Macedo,
A 54-year-old male patient, with recent medical history of acute myocardial infarction, performed a colonoscopy in context of rectal bleeding that revealed, in the sigmoid and rectum colon, erythematous...
Carta Científica
Carcinosarcoma of the ampulla of Vater
649-650
Edson Guzmán Calderón,
Carcinosarcomas, are very rare tumors in gastrointestinal tract, and at the ampulla of Vater location, are extremely uncommon. They are also called spindle cell carcinomas or sarcomatoid carcinomas. These...
Carta Científica
Quiste de colédoco Todani Ia degenerado en paciente con páncreas divisum
650-651
José Francisco Sánchez Melgarejo, José Maria Rubio Mateos, María Josefa Sánchez Fernández,
Los quiste biliares son anomalías congénitas que se asocian con alteraciones de la unión biliopancreática y tienen posibilidad de degeneración. Presentamos el caso de un varón de 72 años con colangitis....
Carta Científica
Fístula gastrogástrica como complicación de un bypass gástrico
651-652
Lidia Serrano Díaz, Javier Jiménez Sánchez, Juan José Martínez Crespo,
La fístula gastro-gástrica es una complicación poco frecuente de la cirugía bariátrica, pero que hay que sospechar si hay aumento de peso o nauseas. Para su diagnostico es necesario endoscopia digestiva...
Carta Científica
Liquen plano esofágico como causa de disfagia
652
Rebeca Irisarri Garde, Erika Borobio Aguilar, Alba Cebrián García,
El liquen plano (LP) es un trastorno inflamatorio idiopático del tejido mucocutáneo, que afecta con mayor frecuencia a la piel o la cavidad oral, y rara vez al esófago. En estos casos se puede producir...