Year 2016 / Volume 108 / Number 10

Editorial
607-608
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4628/2016
Carlos Taxonera Samso,
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) includes Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), both chronic, relapsing, incurable conditions. Phenotypical expression may vary, and a fraction of patients respond...
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Original
609-617
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4229/2016
Quetzalihuitl Arroyo-Martínez, Manuel Rodríguez-Téllez, Antonio García-Escudero, Javier Brugal-Medina, Ricardo González-Cámpora, Ángel Caunedo Álvarez,
Introduction: Barrett’s esophagus (BE) is an acquired disease defined by the presence of intestinal metaplasia with goblet cells in the distal esophagus. The prevalence of BE has increased dramatically...
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Original
618-626
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4410/2016
Manuel Barreiro-de Acosta, Federico Argüelles-Arias, Joaquín Hinojosa, Francisco Javier Júdez Gutiérrez, Jose Maria Tenías Burillo,
Introduction: Not all national health centers include specialized units or clinicians devoted to inflammatory bowel disease. The goal of the survey was to gain an insight into the management of this disease...
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Original
627-636
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.3671/2015
Fernando Alberca de las Parras, María Navalón Rubio, Juan Egea Valenzuela,
Introduction: Refractory esophageal stenosis (RES) is a major health problem in the pediatric population. Several techniques such as stent placement or C-mitomycin (CM) have been described as alternative...
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Original
637-641
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4488/2016
Xuehong Wang, Yuyong Tan, Liang Lv, Hongyi Zhu, Yi Chu, Chenjie Li, Deliang Liu,
Background and aim: Both peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) and pneumatic dilation (PD) has proved to be effective for treating achalasia in patients aged ≥ 65 years. However little is known about the comparison...
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Original
642-647
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4483/2016
Carmen-Monica Preda, Larisa Elena Fulger, Lucian Negreanu, Mircea Manuc, Irina Sandra, Mircea-Mihai Diculescu,
Aim: Perform a comparison between adalimumab (ADA) and infliximab (IFX) in treating post-operative recurrence of Crohn's disease (a comparative analysis of efficacy and safety). Methods: From the 267 patients...
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Review
648-656
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4240/2016
Tiago Cúrdia-Gonçalves, Bruno Rosa, José Cotter,
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is a potentially life-threatening condition and is the most common medical emergency managed by gastroenterologists. Despite being one of the most antique medical...
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Digestive Diseases Image
657-658
Ana Ponte, Rolando Pinho, Sónia Fernandes, Carlos Fernandes, Iolanda Ribeiro, Joana Silva, Jaime Rodrigues, João Carvalho,
The authors present a case of a 38-year-old man with a 4-hour history of accidental removal of a jejunostomy balloon-tube replacement (PEG-18-BRT-S, Cook Medical Inc., Bloomington, USA). The patient had...
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Digestive Diseases Image
658-659
Rosa Coelho, Armando Ribeiro, Roberto Silva, Elisabete Rios, Marco Silva, Guilherme Macedo,
A 76-year-old female patient with a past medical history of diabetes mellitus, stage 3 chronic renal failure and iron deficiency anemia was referred for esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) for evaluation...
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659-600
L.A. Loza Vargas, Henar Núñez Rodríguez, Marina Benito Sanz, Tomás Zamora Martínez, Pilar Díez Redondo, Manuel Pérez Miranda,
An 82-year-old male with a history of high blood pressure, COPD, chronic myeloid leukemia, and stage-4 chronic renal failure. Admitted to hospital for lower-limb cellulitis and severe COPD exacerbation,...
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Digestive Diseases Image
660-661
Jaime P. Rodrigues, Rolando Pinho, Joao Carvalho,
A 57-year-old man with a past medical history of total laryngectomy for squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx was admitted to our institution 5 months after the procedure, for surgical resection of a local...
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Digestive Diseases Image
661-662
Antonio José Fernández López, Miguel González Valverde, Nuria Martínez Sanz, María Encarnación Tamayo Rodríguez, Antonio Albarracín Marín Blázquez,
Duodenal diverticula are a rare, usually asymptomatic clinical condition. When a complication arises clinical suspicion is key for the diagnosis. On occasion these patients receive a delayed diagnosis...
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Digestive Diseases Image
662-663
Marta Magaz Martínez, Aurelio Garrido Botella, Fernando Pons Renedo, Borja Oliva del Río, Bélen Agudo Castillo, Pilar Ibarrola Arévalo, Luis Esteban Abreu García,
Campylobacter infection usually starts in the jejunum and ileum and progresses distally. The case fatality rate is low and most occur in elderly or patients with comorbidity as in this case. Antibiotics...
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Case Report
664-666
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.3939/2015
Carlos García Vásquez, Camilo Castellón Pavón, Santos Jiménez de los Galanes, Juan Gómez Patiño, Belén Brea de Diego,
Splenic abscesses are rare but may be associated with high mortality. Usually they occur in patients with systemic infection related to some immunocompromised state. The symptoms are nonspecific and the...
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Case Report
666-669
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.3908/2015
Laura Granel Villach, María Amparo Moya Sanz, Carlos Fortea Sanchis, Vicente Javier Escrig Sos, Carlos Fortea Sanchís, Carmen Martínez Lahuerta, Nuria Tornador Gaya, José Luis Salvador Sanchís,
Introduction: Primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus is a rare tumor representing only 0.1-0.2% of esophageal malignancies. The goal of the study was to report on the management of a new case diagnosed...
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Case Report
670-672
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.3925/2015
Violeta María Sastre Lozano, Pilar Martínez García, Carlos Sánchez Sánchez, María Torregrosa Lloret, Laura Sevilla Cáceres, Patricia Romero Cara, Senador Morán Sánchez,
Gastric involvement with the varicella-zoster virus is an uncommon clinical condition where early suspicion and diagnosis are important to prevent the consequences deriving from its high morbidity and...
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Case Report
673-676
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.3934/2015
Marco Silva, Margarida Marques, Hélder Cardoso, Susana Rodrigues, Patrícia Andrade, Armando Peixoto, Joana Pardal, Joanne Lopes, Fátima Carneiro, Guilherme Macedo,
Glycogenic hepatopathy is a rare and under-recognized complication in long-standing poorly controlled type 1 diabetes mellitus patients. This is a distinct entity from other causes of hepatomegaly and...
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Case Report
677-680
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.3823/2015
Sergio Sevilla Ribota, Javier Pérez-Bedmar Delgado, Juan José Domínguez Cañete, Ana María Dotor de Lama, Mariano Gómez-Rubio,
Granular cell tumor (GCT) is a rare neoplasm that develops in the gut’s submucosal layer. We report the case of a male with a history of surgically excised colon neoplasm where a rectal polyp was identified...
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Case Report
680-683
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4395/2016
Cristina Fernández de Castro, Ángel Cañete, Eduardo Sanz de Villalobos, Reyes Ferreiro, Agustín Albillos Martínez, Enrique Vázquez Sequeiros,
Interventional endoscopy is a field that continues to grow rapidly. A novel prototype forward-viewing echoendoscope (FV-EUS) has been recently developed in an attempt to overcome some of the limitations...
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Letter to the Editor
684
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4297/2016
María Teresa Galán Puchades,
La carta al editor se refiere al artículo de Canaval-Zuleta et al. aceptado para publicación, titulado “Endoscopy as an alternative diagnostic and therapeutic technique for Taenia saginata”. El trabajo...
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Letter to the Editor
684-685
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4339/2016
Héctor Julián Canaval Zuleta,
Dear editor. We have published an article about the role of the endoscopy in the Taeniosis. I will try to clarify some doubts and misinformation about it, as well Galan-Puchades MT suggests.
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Letter to the Editor
685-686
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4340/2016
Esteban Sáez González, Francia Carolina Díaz Jaime, Adolfo del Val Antoñana,
Olmesartan is one of the various angiotensin II antagonists currently used for the management of high blood pressure. A sprue-like enteropathy was first described in 2012 in association with this antihypertensive...
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