Year 2023 / Volume 115 / Number 4

Editorial
157-159
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9494/2023
Elena Stallings,
Statistical tests are the foundation on which data analysis for all types of clinical, basic and epidemiological research relies upon. Clinicians need to understand these tests and the basics of biostatistics...
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Original
162-167
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8777/2022
Carmen Lara Romero, Jia-Xu Liang, Isabel Fernández Lizaranzazu, Javier Ampuero Herrojo, Javier Castell, Carmen del Prado Alba, Inmaculada Domínguez Pascual, Manuel Romero Gómez,
Objectives: to evaluate the performance of magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) to stage liver fibrosis in patients with histologically confirmed nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and to assess...
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Original
168-174
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8863/2022
Tiaotiao Miao, Yao Zhang, Lin Bai, Xiangqian Yang, Xinli Wen,
Background: Vonoprazan is a potassium competitive acid blocker (P-CAB) approved in Japan in 2014 to treat endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD)-induced ulcers and bleeding or perforation. Therefore, this...
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Original
175-180
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8412/2021
Dalia Morales-Arráez, Federica Benítez-Zafra, Felicitas Díaz-Flores, María Jesús Medina-Alonso, Luz Goretti Santiago, Víctor Pérez-Pérez, Fernando Gutiérrez-Nicolás, Manuel Hernández-Guerra,
Introduction: the COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on hepatitis C virus (HCV) diagnosis by hindering the path to elimination. Albeit, in an uneven manner, depending on the risk group and diagnostic...
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Original
181-187
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8716/2022
Carlos Alventosa Mateu, María Dolores Ocete Mochón, Juan José Urquijo Ponce, Mercedes Latorre Sánchez, Inmaculada Castelló Miralles, Miguel García Deltoro, Enrique Ortega González, María José Bonet Igual, Concepción Gimeno Cardona, Moisés Diago Madrid,
Introduction: simplification strategies for the care circuit of patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) are key to achieve eradication. An electronic identification system was set up for HCV serology to...
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Digestive Diseases Image
188-189
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8733/2022
Blanca Prieto García, Jesús Manuel González Santiago, Felipe Gómez-Caminero López,
A clinical case of a patient from our institution under study for anemia of multifactorial origin in whom splenosis was detected as an incidental finding.
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Digestive Diseases Image
190-191
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8845/2022
Gina Patricia de Lima Piña, Juan Carrascosa Gil, Luis Alfonso Díaz Galvis, Cristina Fuertes Jiménez,
A 38-year-old male with medical history of HIV group C3 with voluntary abandonment of antiretroviral therapy, was hospitalized due to general deterioration, abdominal pain, diarrhea and rectal bleeding...
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Digestive Diseases Image
192-193
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8847/2022
Raúl Alberto Jiménez Castillo, Anabella Rosalía Llantada-López, Daniel Eduardo Benavides-Salgado, José Alberto González González,
A 61-year-old man with a history of progressive dysphagia in the last three years and current COVID-19 diagnosis, presented to our emergency department with sudden dyspnea and loss of consciousness. Initial...
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Digestive Diseases Image
194-195
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8805/2022
María Reyes Busta Nistal, María Lourdes del Olmo Martínez, Pablo Panadero Meseguer, Luis Fernández Salazar,
A 62-year-old woman presented with an episode of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Upper endoscopy revealed white exudates at the middle and lower third of the esophagus. Biopsies proved epidermoid metaplasia...
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Letter
196-197
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9024/2022
Angelo Brunori, Danilo Castellani, Elena Sofia Pieri, Mario Brusco, Marco Prestipino, Rita Cozzali, Renato Colella, Raffaele Manta,
We have written a "letter to Editor" about a case of gastric dilatation caused by a symptomatic gastric duplication cyst with ectopic pancreas ingrowth, in a 13 years old boy. The Endoscopy Ultra Sound...
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Letter
197-199
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9006/2022
Fernando Rubio-Acosta, Paulina Moctezuma-Velázquez, Emma Castro-Romero, Luis Uscanga-Domínguez, Kazuo Yamamoto-Furusho, Carlos Moctezuma-Velázquez,
In this study we assessed the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) as a predictor of steroid non-response (SNR) in patients with acute severe ulcerative colitis and found a NLR on day 3 (NLR-3) >6.1 as a...
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Letter
199
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9059/2022
Yuiko Oishi, Akira Hokama,
We herein report an 80-year-old woman who accidentally ingested a sharp foreign body. Transparent cap-assisted endoscopy disclosed an impacted press-through package (PTP) in the upper esophagus. The PTP...
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Letter
200-201
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9042/2022
Guilherme Rossi Assis-Mendoça, Rosival Vicente de Paula, Fernanda Marconi Roversi, Maura Lima Bueno, Ana Caroline Ferreira da Silva, Ciro Garcia Montes, José Vassallo, Marlone Cunha-Silva,
We present the case of a 45-year-old man with watery diarrhea for 2 years, leading to marked weight loss (52 kg). On admission, the patient presented with pallor, dehydration and cachexia. Abdominal examination...
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Letter
201-202
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9047/2022
Elena María Gázquez Aguilera, Ana Celia Barnosi Marín, Sergio Ferra Murcia, Juan José Cruz Rueda, Juan José López González, Marta Fernández Carrasco,
Sarcoidosis is included within the multisystemic granulomatous diseases with autoimmune character. The case of a 51-year-old man with hemoptysis, cholestasis and bone lesions is presented. After ruling...
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Letter
202-203
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9075/2022
Lu Bai, Zhi-Chao Yu, De-Feng Li, Ding-Guo Zhang,
A 92-year-old woman complained of dysphagia and vomit for 4 days without previous disease history. We use the transparent cap empty esophageal solid foods.
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Letter
203-204
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8975/2022
Pilar Ruz Zafra, Carlos Javier García Sánchez, Alberto Pérez Ramírez, Ana Guil Soto, Eduardo Leo Carnerero,
Idiopathic achalasia is a chronic oesophageal motility disorder caused by loss of inhibitory neurons at the esophageal myenteric plexus resulting in incomplete relaxation of the lower oesophageal sphincter...
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Letter
204-205
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9130/2022
Li Shen, Jun Xu, Aoqing Wang, Jin Zheng,
We report a case of Intrahepatic sarcomatoid cholangiocarcinoma(ISCC) , which is a rare subtype of cholangiocarcinoma. Primary sarcomatoid hepatocellular carcinoma degeneration is common after anticancer...
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Letter
205
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9132/2022
Akira Hokama, Atsushi Iraha,
We present a case of a 13-year-old boy with Crohn's disease (CD) who presented with abdominal pain and diarrhea. On examination, there was tenderness on the lower abdomen. Laboratory examinations showed...
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Letter
206
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9145/2022
Marta Tejedor, Agustín Delgado, Rosa Melero, Víctor Fernández-Alonso, Magdalena Salcedo, Patrocinio Rodríguez-Benítez,
Tolvaptan (TVP) is a selective antagonist of vasopressin receptors, approved for the treatment of hyponatremia in SIADH, congestive heart failure (CHF) and cirrhosis. We retrospectively reviewed all cases...
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Letter
206-207
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9153/2022
Muhammad Ismail, Carlos Noronha Ferreira, Miguel Moura, Luís Carrilho Ribeiro, Rui Tato Marinho,
A 67-year-old male patient with long term gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) on double dose proton pump inhibitors, presented with dysphagia for soft foods. He underwent upper gastrointestinal (UGI)...
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Letter
207-208
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9154/2022
Akira Hokama, Atsushi Iraha,
We present a case of a 17-year-old woman with ulcerative colitis (UC) presented with abdominal pain and hematochezia. A CT scan showed active bowel inflammation, presenting the Chinese dragon sign. A diagnosis...
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Letter
208-209
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9048/2022
María Teresa García Castellanos, Ruth García Romero, Paolo Bragagnini Rodríguez,
Ingestion of lead material represents a therapeutic challenge involving high toxicity, significant clinical impact, and controversy regarding management. We report the case of a 2-year-old girl, who accidentally...
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Letter
209-210
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9126/2022
Pedro Henrique Teles Prado, Rosival Vicente de Paula, Andressa Tomé Rezende de Faria, Bruna Lemos Silva, Jose Celso Ardengh,
We describe a case of a gastric neuroendocrine tumor (NET) in a patient with a history of long- term proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use. A 29- year- old man using PPI for the last 10 years due to gastroesophageal...
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Letter
210-211
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9143/2022
Julia López Cardona, Carla Senosiaín Lalastra, Francisco Mesonero Gismero, Irene García de la Filia Molina, Sergio Escribano Cruz, Gonzalo Trigo Gallego, Agustín Albillos,
We present the case of a 59-year-old man with acute myeloid leukemia treated with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). Two years later, he consulted for diarrhea and steatorrhea...
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Letter
211-212
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9479/2023
Elena Crespo Álvarez, Clara Giménez Francés, Inmaculada Navarro García, Cristóbal Perán Fernández, Cecilia Gijón Román, Beatriz Gómez Molina, Virginia Casado García, José Luis Vázquez Rojas,
Aortoesophageal fistula is a very rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, however its interest lies in the high mortality rate associated with it. Due to this, early diagnosis and treatment of this...
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Letter
212-213
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9526/2023
Daniel Aparicio-López, Sonia Cantín Blázquez, Ana Cristina Marzo Álvarez, Mónica Herrando Medrano, Luis Antonio Ligorred Padilla,
Aortoesophageal fistula (AEF) secondary to thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) is a rare clinical entity that poses a threat to life as it causes massive digestive bleeding, and it is estimated...
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Letter
213-214
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9488/2023
Marta García Calonge, Daniel Muíño-Domínguez, María Helena González Sánchez, Eva Barreiro Alonso,
Intestinal obstruction due to sigmoid volvulus (SV) represents a relevant percentage of abdominal diseases presenting at the emergency department. Treatment is based on early endoscopic devolvulation (ED),...
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Letter
214-215
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9489/2023
Emanuel Dias, João Santos-Antunes, Margarida Marques, Elsa Fonseca, Joanne Lopes, Guilherme Macedo,
A 17-year-old male with no previous medical history presented with a 1-year history of rectal bleeding, mucus discharge and occasional rectal prolapse. Colonoscopy revealed several polypoidal growth masses...
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Letter
215-216
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9480/2023
José Ruiz Pardo, Pedro Antonio Sánchez Fuentes, Manuel García Redondo, Cristina María Gras Gómez, Elisabet Vidaña Márquez, Ricardo Belda Lozano, Manuel Ferrer-Márquez, Ángel Reina Duarte,
Gastric schwannoma can be malignant in 13.8% of cases. The prognosis of malignant schwannoma is usually poor, characterized by a rapidly progressive disease course and a poor response to chemotherapy....
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Letter
216-217
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9373/2022
Ángela Antón Rodríguez, Andrea González Pascual, Jose Ignacio Fortea Ormaechea, Antonio Cuadrado Lavin,
Gastrointestinal tuberculosis (TB) is a rare disease and only involves the duodenum in 2-2,5% of all cases. A 60-year-old female with no reported medical history, presented with constitutional syndrome...
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Letter
217-218
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9429/2022
Cristina María Gras Gómez, José Ruiz Pardo, Javier Martín Cano, Irene Teruel-Lillo, José López-Fernández, Beatriz Estébanez-Ferrero, Pedro Antonio Sánchez Fuentes, Ángel Reina-Duarte,
Portal pneumatosis has been considered an ominous sign associated with intestinal ischemia, with a mortality rate of up to 90% as long as it is associated with sepsis. However, the prognosis of mesenteric...
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Letter
218-219
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9339/2022
Carlos Castaño-Milla, Cristina Cuadrado-Tiemblo, Elena Resina Sierra, José Antonio Olmos-Jerez, Carlos Chavarría,
We present the case of a 67-year-old female with recent cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholelithiasis. She was admitted to our hospital with right upper quadrant abdominal pain and vomiting. Laboratory...
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Letter
219-220
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9404/2022
Cristina Martínez-Cuevas, Miryam Moreta Rodríguez, José Pablo Miramontes-González, Teresa Guerra Garijo,
MALS, also called celiac artery compression syndrome, celiac axis syndrome, or Dunbar syndrome, is a rare entity caused by progressive stenosis of the celiac trunk secondary to extrinsic compression of...
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Letter
220-221
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9428/2022
Daniel Alvarenga Fernandes, Carlos Eduardo Garcez Teixeira, Ana Paula Toledo del Rio, Zoraida Sachetto, Fabiano Reis,
A 60-year-old female patient was admitted to the emergency room for a 7-day history of abdominal bloating, nausea, vomiting, constipation, and lack of flatus. She had been diagnosed with systemic sclerosis...
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Letter
221
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9440/2022
Emanuel Dias, Marco Antonio Silva, João Carlos Almeida, Jorge Pinheiro, Guilherme Macedo,
A 51-year-old male with previous medical history of dyslipidemia performed screening colonoscopy, which revealed a sessile polypoid lesion with a diameter of approximately 8 mm located at the proximal...
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Letter
222-223
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9394/2022
Luisa Paola Garzón Hernández, Isabel Mora Oliver, Ernesto Muñoz Sornosa, Elena Marti Cuñat,
Rapunzel syndrome is a rare clinical entity in which a trichobezoar is produced by the ingestion of hair at the gastric level, extending in the form of a tail towards the duodenum. It occurs in young patients...
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