Apresenta-se o caso de um doente de 64 anos com epigastralgias, náuseas e vómitos recorrentes, associados a astenia, anorexia e emagrecimento significativo nos últimos meses. Estas queixas estavam presentes desde 1998 mas agravaram-se em 2002 após cirurgia para correcção de acalásia. Perante a avaliação efectuada colocaram-se como hipóteses diagnósticas uma pancreatite aguda idiopática recorrente ou uma isquémi...
Introduction: In patients with morbid obesity the intragastric balloon (IGB) can be a “bridge” to surgery or a temporary treatment in patients who are not candidates for surgery. Objective: Evaluate IGB efficacy in morbidly obese patients. Patients and Methods: In 2003/2004 seventeen IGB Bioenterics ® filled with normal saline and methylene blue were placed in 17 patients [11 women, median age was 49.2 (27-69 y...
Intralesional steroid injection has been used in benign oesophageal strictures to improve the results of dilatation. Most studies use triamcinolone, only a few have reported using betamethasone. Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the combination of dilatation and intralesional betamethasone injection in benign oesophageal strictures. Methods: Cases of benign oesophageal strictures treated with d...
OBJECTIVES: The introduction of the colonic J-pouch has markedly improved the functional outcome of restorative rectal cancer surgery. However colonic J-pouch surgery can be problematic and may present some late evacuatory problems. To overcome these limitations a novel pouch has been proposed: the transverse coloplasty pouch. The purpose of our study was to compare the functional outcomes of these two differen...
This is the report of an unusual foreign body in the rectum which was a complication of the migration of an esophageal Celestin's prosthesis.