Year 2017 / Volume 109 / Number 1

Editorial
1-2
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4821/2017
Juan Manuel Blancas Valencia,
As we know, the frequency of diverticular disease (DD) increases according to age, being less than 5% in patients under 40 years of age and up to 60% after 80 years of age. The most common distribution...
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Original
3-9
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4190/2015
Natércia Joaquim, Paulo Caldeira, Artur G. Antunes, Marta Eusébio, Horácio Guerreiro,
Background: Colonic diverticular bleeding is the most common cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Risk factors related to severity and repeated bleeding episodes are not completely clearly defined. Objective:...
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Original
10-16
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4546/2016
Fernando Bermejo San José, Alicia Algaba, Sergio López Durán, Iván Guerra, Marta Aicart, María Hernández-Tejero, Elena Garrido, María de Lucas, Daniel Bonillo, Antonio López Sanromán,
Background: Data about use and effectiveness of mercaptopurine in inflammatory bowel disease are relatively limited. Aims: To assess the possible therapeutic indications, efficacy and safety of mercaptopurine...
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Original
17-25
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4235/2016
Ángela Puente, Joaquín Cabezas, María Jesús López Arias, José Ignacio Fortea, María Teresa Arias, Ángel Estébanez, Fernando Casafont, Emilio Fábrega, Javier Crespo,
Background and aims: The regression of liver fibrosis and portal hypertension (PH) and their influence on the natural history of compensated hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related cirrhosis has not been studied...
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Original
26-32
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4557/2016
Ágnes Anna Csontos, Andrea Molnár, Zsolt Piri, Erzsébet Pálfi, Pál Miheller,
The purpose of malnutrition screening is to predict the probability of a worse outcome due to nutritional factors. The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) can be used for screening in inflammatory...
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Original
33-48
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4705/2016
Ignacio Fernández-Urien, Federico Argüelles-Arias, Pedro A. Alonso-Aguirre, Javier Júdez, Begoña Bermejo,
Introduction: Endoscopy plays a key role for the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal disorders. Therefore, quality indicators have been widely proposed in order to optimize endoscopic practice....
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Review
49-59
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4114/2015
Gema Plumé Gimeno, Marco Bustamante-Balén, Carla Satorres Paniagua, Francia Carolina Díaz Jaime, Maria José Cejalvo Andújar,
Due to the rising prevalence of coronary heart disease, endoscopists are more frequently performing a polypectomy in patients on antiplatelet therapy (APT) and dual antiplatelet therapy (DATP). Despite...
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Digestive Diseases Image
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José Barquín Yagüez, Pedro Abadía Barnó, Juan Carlos García Pérez,
Superior mesenteric artery syndrome, also Wilkie’s syndrome, is an uncommon cause of upper intestinal obstruction. It includes compression of the third duodenal portion by the aorta and the overlying superior...
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Digestive Diseases Image
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Adriana Fabiola Romano-Munive, Rafael Barreto-Zuñiga,
A 54-year-old woman underwent colonoscopy for colon cancer screening. Colonoscopy showed multiple cysts in the sigmoid colon, with the largest being 4 cm in diameter. One of the cysts was biopsied. Cyst...
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Digestive Diseases Image
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Carlos Oliva-Fonte, Cristina Fernández Rey, Javier Pereda Rodríguez, Ana María González-Fernández,
We report the case of a 14 year-old woman, who presents epigastric abdominal pain, abundant vomits and an important abdominal distension. Previously, she presented similar episodes. She has not any significant...
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Digestive Diseases Image
63-64
José Luis Beristain-Hernández, Mario Eduardo Torres-Olalde, Martín Rojano-Rodríguez,
Foreign bodies are a common problem in the daily endoscopic practice. Nevertheless, long objects as toothbrushes, sometimes pose a special problem when trying to remove them from the stomach, due to the...
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Digestive Diseases Image
64-65
Armando Peixoto, Marco Silva, Filipe Vilas-Boas, Guilherme Macedo,
The authors present the case of a 32-year-old Caucasian male, engineer, who was submitted to a colonoscopy after a presumptive diagnosis of ulcerative colitis. The patient referred an acute bloody and...
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Digestive Diseases Image
65-66
Rocío Ferreiro-Iglesias, Manuel Narciso Blanco Freire, Manuel Paz Novo, J. Enrique Domínguez Muñoz,
A 47-year-old man was attended at the emergency room for severe chest pain after eating sausage with subsequent vomiting and mild upper gastrointestinal bleeding. In the chest radiography we could not...
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Case Report
67-68
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4073/2015
Marcela de Almeida Menezes, Vírginia Cabral, Sônia Letícia Silva Lorena,
Introduction: Celiac crisis is a life-threatening complication of celiac disease that is rarely described in adults. Case report: We report the case of a 31-year-old man with celiac crisis as a first manifestation...
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Case Report
69-70
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4165/2015
Irene Álvarez Abad, Jose Mª García González, Leire Agirre Etxabe, Ana Mª Quintana Rivera, Alberto Colina Alonso,
Background: The hemangiopericytoma is an uncommon vascular tumour. We report a case of interest because of its rarity, size and location. Case report: We present the case of a 63-year-old woman who consulted...
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Case Report
70-73
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4205/2016
Claudia Páez Cumpa, Alicia Erimeiku Barahona, Mª Antonia Payeras Capó, Isabel Amengual Antich, Carmen Garrido Durán,
We report the case of a 39-year-old patient who presented an episode of upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to hemobilia. The imaging tests showed the gallbladder occupied by solid tissue, with a diagnosis...
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Case Report
73-75
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4225/2016
Manouchehr Khoshbaten, Sepideh Tahsini Tekantapeh,
In this paper, a 63-year-old woman was reported with recurrent abdominal pain after cholecystectomy. A retained surgical towel was seen by CT-scan in the peritoneal cavity, where it migrated across duodenum...
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Case Report
76-78
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4202/2016
Alejandra Tepox Padrón, Marcos Rafael Ramírez Márquez, Juan Carlos Cordóva Ramón, Juan Cosme-Labarthe, Diego Luis Carrillo Pérez,
Schwannomas (or neurilemmomas) are slow-growing mesenchymal neoplasms of the peripheral nerve sheath that may arise at almost any anatomical site. Mesentery schwannoma is extremely rare, with less than...
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Letter to the Editor
79-80
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4351/2016
Marina de Benito Sanz, Javier Santos Fernández, Mª Henar Núñez Rodríguez,
Colorectal neuroendocrine tumours are rare A 78 year old man with a history of hypertension, heart disease, pacemakers, prostate adenocarcinoma.On examination for rectal bleeding, a colonoscopy was performed...
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Letter to the Editor
80-81
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4303/2016
Viviana Parra Vargas, Diego M. Aponte, Eligio Antonio Álvarez,
Russell bodies gastritis is a very rare disease, with few cases reported in literature, and characterized by the finding of plasma cells with eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusions in the gastric mucosa,...
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Letter to the Editor
81
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4419/2016
Yuyong Tan, Hongyi Zhu, Deliang Liu,
Peoral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) has been proved to be safe and effective for treating achalasia, however the presence of esophageal diverticulum would increase the technical difficulty. In this letter,...
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Letter to the Editor
81-82
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4393/2016
Carlos Sánchez Justicia, Lucia Granero Peiró, Jorge Ali Arabe Paredes,
Anisakiasis and endometriosis is rare cause of intestinal obstruction and even perforation, the latter being extremely rare. We report the case of a patient with intestinal obstruction that progress to...
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Letter to the Editor
83
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4452/2016
Raúl Honrubia Lopez, Aurora Burgos García, Elena Palacios Lázaro,
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome represents a group of hereditary connective tissue disorders characterized by ligamentous hyperlaxity, fragile skin and joint hypermobility. Gastrointestinal complications in this...
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Letter to the Editor
83-84
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4455/2016
Judith Álvarez Otero, Francisco Fernández Fernández, Javier de la Fuente Aguado,
Alopecia areata produces hair loss in circular patches by an immune mechanism. The association with hematologic malignancies and with digestive tumors has been described. We report the case of a man who...
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Acknowledgement
The Editor and the Editorial Board of The Spanish Journal of Gastroenterology are grateful to the following reviewers for their contribution to the journal in 2016.
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