Year 2017 / Volume 109 / Number 5

Editorial
319-321
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.5018/2017
Miguel Mascarenhas-Saraiva,
The era of colon capsule endoscopy (CCE) started in 2007. Few years later second-generation CCE (CCE-2) (Medtronic, Minneapolis, USA) was launched, featuring an improved optical system allowing for nearly...
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Original
322-327
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4369/2016
Óscar Nogales, Javier García-Lledó, Marisol Luján, David Nicolás, José Francisco Juanmartiñena, Begoña González-Suárez, Francisco Sánchez Ceballos, Ignacio Couto, José Olmedo, Cristina Garfia, Cristina Carretero, Ignacio Fernández Urién, Sarbelio Rodríguez, Matilde Asteinza, Pilar Olivencia, Ángeles Masedo, Miguel Muñoz-Navas, Beatriz Merino, Cecilia González Asanza,
Introduction: Colon capsule endoscopy (CCE) is an alternative approach for the examination of the colon in patients who refuse colonoscopy or after incomplete colonoscopy (IC). We conducted a study to...
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Original
328-334
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4738/2016
Laura Mora López, Roser Flores Clotet, Xavier Serra Aracil, Noemí Montes Ortega, Salvador Navarro Soto,
Introduction: Acute diverticulitis (AD) is increasingly seen in Emergency services. The application of a reliable classification is vital for its safe and effective management. Objective: To determine...
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Original
335-343
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4219/2016
Israel Grilo, Juan Manuel Pascasio, Juan Luis Tirado, Francisco-Jesús López-Pardo, Francisco Ortega-Ruiz, José Manuel Sousa, María José Rodríguez-Puras, María Teresa Ferrer, Miguel Ángel Gómez-Bravo, Antonio Grilo Reina,
Background: The macro-aggregated albumin lung perfusion scan (99mTc-MAA) is a diagnostic method for hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS). Goal: To determine the sensitivity of 99mTc-MAA in diagnosing HPS, to...
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Original
344-349
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4258/2016
Luzdivina Monteserín Ron, Marcos Jiménez Palacios, Pedro Linares Torres, Aleida Miguel Peña, Begoña Álvarez Cuenllas, María Isabel Fernández-Natal, Emilio Valverde Romero, Francisco Jorquera Plaza,
Background: In Europe, acute hepatitis caused by the hepatitis E virus (HEV) traditionally was an infection found in people who had travelled to endemic zones, mainly Asia and Africa. However, a growing...
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Original
350-357
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4499/2016
Eduardo Espinet Coll, Javier Nebreda Durán, Gontrand López-Nava Breviere, Julio Ducóns García, Manuel Rodríguez-Téllez, Javier Crespo García, Carlos Marra-López Valenciano,
Introduction: Bariatric endoscopy includes a series of specific techniques focused on the management of obese patients. As a quality criterion, safety as expressed by a minimal incidence of serious complications...
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Review
358-367
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4630/2016
Maria Moris, Michael B. Wallace,
The real prevalence of pancreatic cystic lesions remains unknown. The malignant potential of some of these lesions remains a cause for significant concern. Thus, it is mandatory to develop a strategy to...
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Jorge Galván Fernández, Maria Isabel Jiménez Cuenca, Isabel Molpeceres Martínez, María Luisa Álvarez-Quiñones,
A 61 year-old man with a history of hypertension, type2 diabetes, chronic renal failure, tuberculosis and peripheral arterial disease presented with gangrene in the right leg. A right supracondylar amputation...
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369
Luis Gorospe Sarasúa, Andreína Olavarría-Delgado, Frank Eric Farfán-Leal, Josefa Pérez-Templado Ladrón de Guevara,
We present a case of a 54-year-old patient with cirrhosis, progressive dyspnea, and platypnea. Thoracic computed tomography (CT) showed multiple pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVM), confirming...
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370
Laura Santos Santamaría, Mercedes Pérez Carreras, José Díaz-Tasende, Gregorio Castellano Tortajada,
A 78-year-old woman with hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and revascularized ischemic heart disease was diagnosed with gastric adenocarcinoma in 2011, with suspected bilateral adrenal metastatic disease,...
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371
Antonio José Fernández López, Maria Encarnación Tamayo Rodríguez, Francisco Miguel González Valverde, Antonio Albarracín Marín-Blázquez,
Iatrogenic esophageal perforations are rare but associated with a high morbidity and mortality. Secondary to placing a Sengstaken ballon are even more extraordinary because of the infrequency which this...
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372
José Ramón Torres Alfonso, Delia Cortés Guiral, Javier Jesús Barambio Buendía, Damián García-Olmo,
Omental torsion is an infrecuent cause of acute abdomen. It is related to obesity, abdominal surgery and abdominal trauma. Urgent exploratory laparotomy allows diagnosis and prevents complications as intrabdominal...
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Gloria Paseiro Crespo, María García Nebreda, Elia Marqués Medina, Edurne Álvaro Cifuentes,
Todani proposed the most accepted classification for cystic lesions of the bile duct, including 5 types. Serena described another one, type VI, which includes cystic lesions of the isolated cystic duct,...
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374
Carmen Lara Romero, Aida Casado Bernabéu, Eduardo Romero Pérez,
We present 2 radiological pictures of a malignant peritoneal mesothelioma with hepatic infiltration, in the form of impressive rough calcifications.
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375
Efrén Martínez-Quintana, Alberto Monescillo, Fayna Rodríguez-González,
Patients after a Fontan operation exhibit some degree of fibrosis which are primarily located in a sinusoidal or centrilobular pattern. Cirrhosis may develop years later and the incidence of cancer is...
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376
Samuel Fernandes, Carlos Noronha Ferreira, José Freire, José Velosa,
An 18-year-old male patient with a history of atopy and intermittent dysphagia for solids, presented to the emergency department with sudden onset total dysphagia followed by hematemesis, after ingesting...
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377-378
Cristina Saldaña Dueñas, Juan José Vila Costa, Ignacio Fernández-Urién,
The choledochocele is a cystic dilatation of the intraduodenal portion of the bile duct and corresponds to the type III biliary cysts in the Todani ´s classification. Eventhough the majority of patients...
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378
Katja Serra, Roger Llatjos, Isabel Catalá, Joan B. Gornals,
Recent studies have shown that the adrenal gland is the fourth most common site of HCC extrahepatic metastasis; despite this, the incidence of right adrenal metastasis of HCC is unclear. EUS-guided FNA...
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379
Eduardo Rodrigues-Pinto, Guilherme Macedo,
A 68-year-old female patient with a past medical history of chronic gastritis underwent an upper endoscopy for surveillance. A ring appearing-like structure recovered from normal mucosa was found in the...
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Case Report
380-382
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4466/2016
Enrique Iglesias Julián, Ester Badía Aranda, Belén Bernad Cabredo, Daniel Corrales Cruz, María José Romero Arauzo,
Terlipressin is a vasopressin analogue used in esophageal variceal bleeding and hepatorenal syndrome management. It is a safe drug with mild secondary effects. However, potentially serious ischemic complications...
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Case Report
382-385
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4239/2016
Samuel Raimundo Fernandes, Cilénia Baldaia, Hugo Pinto Marques, Francisco Tortosa, Fernando Ramalho,
Clear-cell cholangiocarcinoma is a very uncommon variant of cholangiocarcinoma with a largely unknown natural history and prognosis. We report a case of a 51-year-old previously healthy woman presenting...
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Case Report
385-388
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4593/2016
Cláudio Rodrigues Martins, Alice Gagnaire, Florian Rostain, Come Lepage,
Primary intestinal lymphangiectasia or Waldmann’s disease is an uncommon cause of protein losing enteropathy with an unknown etiology and is usually diagnosed during childhood. It is characterized by dilation...
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Case Report
388-390
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4072/2015
Guillermo Ontanilla Clavijo, Julia Praena Segovia, Álvaro Giráldez Gallego, María Elisa Cordero Matía, José Manuel Sousa Martín,
Epstein-Barr virus, a member of the Herpesviridae family, is responsible for the infectious mononucleosis clinical syndrome, which mainly includes the pharyngitis, fever, and lymphadenopathy triad after...
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Letter to the Editor
391-392
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4617/2016
José Antonio Aparicio-Gómez, Silvia Herrera-López, José Gutiérrez-Fernández,
Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a common disease within the population. Most cases are self-limited. However, intensive treatment is sometimes necessary to ensure patient integrity. This disease is characterized...
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Letter to the Editor
392
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4425/2016
Ana Ponte, Rolando Pinho, Margarida Mota,
The authors present the case of a 66-year-old woman with four hospitalizations due to recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) non responsive to vancomycin and fidaxomicin. Furthermore, intestinal...
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Letter to the Editor
393
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4623/2016
Sara Campos, Cláudia Agostinho, Maria Augusta Cipriano,
A 48-year old female patient was admitted to the emergency department with upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Endoscopy showed large esophageal varices that were treated with band ligation. She had been...
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Letter to the Editor
393-394
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4616/2016
Katherine Y. Bustamante Robles, Aurora Burgos García, Cristina Suárez Ferrer,
Association between eosinophilic esophagitis and herpetic esophagitis has been suggested in some studies but it continues been so controversial. We present two clinical cases of two immunocompetent patients...
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Letter to the Editor
394-395
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4614/2016
Fernando Karel Fonseca Sosa,
Finding a Meckel's diverticulum during a laparotomy is rare, operating on a patient for a complication of diverticulum is rare, but if this complication is the result of a perforation of the diverticulum...
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Letter to the Editor
395-396
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4640/2016
Javier A. Cienfuegos, Alberto Benito, Fernando Rotellar,
Agenesis of the dorsal pancreas is a rare malformation. Since 1911 and until 2008, 107 cases have been reported. Herein we report a new case on agenesis of the dorsal pancreas associated with mucinous...
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