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Usually symptoms of brucellosis are nonspecific and characterized by a wide range of complaints. Although the disease in Israel is almost exclusively food borne (caused by Brucella melitensis in unpasteurized goat milk products) so the main route of infection is the gastrointestinal tract, but gastrointestinal complications are rare, and only sporadic cases of ileitis or colitis have been described. We present a 43-year-old woman with an acute abdomen, probably due to diverticulitis. It was diagnosed only after blood cultures were positive for Brucella melitensis. We believe that its protean manifestations should be considered in addition to the other bizarre presentations of this disease, important in our region.
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PMID:[Brucellosis presenting as acute abdomen]. 1091 17

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is rare. Fewer than 30 cases have been published in the Spanish literature, although Kaijser first described this entity in 1937. Its etiology is still unknown and it has frequently been reported to involve the stomach and small bowel, with characteristic eosinophilic infiltration of the bowel wall. The colon has rarely been reported as a site of this condition, which manifests as acute abdominal pain due to intestinal obstruction. We report the case of a 38-year-old woman who presented eosinophilic gastroenteritis. Onset was acute colitis causing acute abdomen. The patient received conservative treatment and responded well to steroids. To our knowledge, such a case has not previously been reported.
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PMID:[Gastroenteritis eosinophilic presenting as colitis with acute abdomen]. 1114 23

A 37-year-old woman presented with an acute abdomen following the onset of watery diarrhea. Spontaneous peritonitis was detected, along with evidence of a focal sigmoid colon perforation. Subsequent postoperative colonoscopic studies revealed collagenous colitis with a focal, deep, nongranulomatous ulcer in the sigmoid colon. Although the literature suggests that collagenous colitis tends to have a relatively 'benign' clinical course characterized by chronic or episodic watery diarrhea. Potentially serious and life- threatening complications may occur in this microscopic form of inflammatory bowel disease.
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PMID:Spontaneous peritonitis from perforation of the colon in collagenous colitis. 1133 29

As the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection continues to rise the clinician is encountered with a diagnostic challenge. Nonsurgical diseases such as acute colitis or enteritis can appear similar to such true surgical emergencies as abscess, perforation, or mesenteric ischemia. We report a case of fulminant hepatic failure associated with didanosine and masquerading as a surgical abdomen and compare the clinical, biologic, histologic, and ultrastructural findings with reports described previously. This entity should be kept in mind when evaluating the acute abdomen in the HIV-positive patient.
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PMID:Antiretroviral-induced hepatic steatosis and lactic acidosis: case report and review of the literature. 1145 Jul 88

4 cases of extrauterine pregnancy with IUDs were studied both clinically and pathologically at the Faculty of Medicine of Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. In 3 cases the gestation sac was tubal, with 2 in the ampullary portion and 1 in the isthmic portion. The 4th case was a left tubo-ovarian mass, showing an embryo within an ovarian gestation sac. Microscopic examination of the tube revealed chorionic villi intermingled with areas of necrosis, hemorrhage, and inflammatory cell infiltration. The diagnosis of the ovarian pregnancy was based on the demonstration of chorionic villi in relation to the ovarian medullary portion, showing a loose connective tissue structure and prominent congested blood vessels. Case 1, a 27-year old, para 2+0, presented with pain, amenorrhea, bleeding, and fever. The clinical diagnosis was septic abortion with IUD in situ. The loop was removed and curettage was scanty. Antibiotics were administered. The fever subsided but the abdominal pain persisted and mass in the right adnexa could be felt. Laparoscopy was performed, confirming the diagnosis of right tubal pregnancy. Laparotomy and right salpingectomy were performed. The 2nd case, para 1+0, had an IUD for 1 year and was admitted as an emergency. The diagnosis was acute abdomen, mostly disturbed ectopic pregnancy. Laparotomy was performed, and ectopic pregnancy in the region of the isthmus of the right tube was diagnosed. Right salpingectomy was performed. Both cases 3 and 4 had IUDs for a period of between 1-2 years and had amenorrhea, bleeding, and tenesmus. They were treated as colitis. The amenorrhea ranged between 2-3 months. Examination revealed a mass on the left side. Laparotomy was performed. In case 3 it was ampullary pregnancy on the left side. In case 4 there was a tubo-ovarian mass with an amniotic sac protruding from this mass. Left salpingo-oophorectomy was performed. All patients had uneventful recoveries. Figures illustrate these tubal and ovarian pregnancies.
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PMID:Ectopic pregnancy in patients using intrauterine contraception. 1227 56

We describe a 53-year-old man with a history of diarrhea temporally related to the use of flutamide. He developed an acute abdomen, and presented with an ileocecal intussusception due to an edematous ischemic cecum. The ischemia was due to enterocolic lymphocytic phlebitis (ELP), with numerous associated thrombi. The phlebitis involved not only the ischemic area but also the grossly unaffected areas, including the entire right colon, terminal ileum, and appendix. All layers of the bowel wall were involved. Mesenteric veins were also prominently affected, but the arteries were spared. This rare form of vasculitis was associated with a marked lymphocytic infiltrate involving the epithelium of the entire right colon, ileum, and appendix. This is the first reported case of ELP occurring in conjunction with lymphocytic colitis, lymphocytic enteritis, and lymphocytic appendicitis. The temporal association of the patient's symptoms with flutamide use suggests that this peculiar form of lymphocytic inflammation of the veins and mucosa likely represents a drug reaction. We suggest that some cases of lymphocytic colitis may also be associated with ELP but are unlikely to be recognized unless affected submucosal vessels happen to be included in the biopsy.
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PMID:Enterocolic lymphocytic phlebitis with lymphocytic colitis, lymphocytic appendicitis, and lymphocytic enteritis. 1508 75

An 18-year-old long-term Norwegian resident of Somali origin was submitted to hospital with bloody diarrhoea, fever, weight loss and abdominal pain. On initial colonoscopy, colitis with segmental appearance was seen. Apart from a single polymerase chain reaction (PCR) from gastric aspirate staining, PCR and culture for acid-fast bacilli revealed negative results from the multiple samples taken including sputum, gastric fluid, stool, urine and intestinal mucosa. On physical examination and CT scan, there was no evidence of ascites, lymph node enlargement or pathologic pulmonary findings. Although the diagnosis was uncertain, tuberculostatic therapy was initiated. As the conformational testing of the PCR and the microbiological work-up remained negative and the patient's condition did not improve, tuberculostatic treatment was stopped and Crohn's disease was stated as the most likely diagnosis. Although the patient improved clinically under therapy with prednisolone, newly appearing fistulas deriving from the ascending colon were noted on follow-up. Thus tuberculostatic treatment was restarted. However, signs of an acute abdomen appeared and laparotomy was performed, thereby revealing a peritoneal spread of nodules. Resection of the ileum and ascending colon was performed. Diagnosis of intestinal tuberculosis with peritoneal spread was made by histology from resected bowel specimens showing caseating granulomas and a positive PCR result. The patient's condition improved after resection of the highly inflamed bowel segments and tuberculostatic therapy. Our case report shows the difficulty of proving intestinal tuberculosis by microbiological testing, macroscopic features on colonoscopy, histology, imaging such as CT scan and by empirical therapy. Therefore, in cases of colonic inflammation, where intestinal tuberculosis is an important differential diagnosis, a more aggressive diagnostic approach such as explorative laparoscopy should be considered.
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PMID:Pitfalls in the diagnosis of intestinal tuberculosis: a case report. 1693 27

Eosinophilic colitis is an uncommon condition and rarely presents as acute abdomen. We report a 65-year-old man who presented with acute abdomen-- severe pain in upper abdomen, with pyrexia, tachycardia, guarding and right-sided intercostal tenderness--secondary to eosinophilic colitis and was successfully managed. He had additional problems in form of cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis, cholangitis, pyogenic liver abscesses and gout.
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PMID:Acute abdomen due to eosinophilic colitis with liver abscess. 1697 40

Ipilimumab (anti-CTLA-4 antibody) is a new tool for the treatment of metastatic melanoma patients that has led to an improvement in survival rates worldwide. New types of toxicities have been described with ipilimumab called 'immune-related adverse events' or irAEs. Here, we report an acute and steroid resistant case of ipilimumab-induced colitis treated with infliximab in a melanoma stage IV AJCC patient. The patient presented with acute grade 3 diarrhea after the second perfusion of ipilimumab. After the administration of intravenous steroids, the patient continued to have grade 2 diarrhea with erythematous mucous with several ulceration sites on rectosigmoidoscopy. Infliximab perfusion (5 mg/kg) was performed and resulted in resolution of symptoms within 2 days with complete healing was observed by rectal sigmoidoscopy on day 7. After failure of two further lines of chemotherapy, the patient died 10 months after the diagnosis of stage IVM1C melanoma. Treatment algorithms exist for the management of these digestive adverse events; however, some points remain unclear. No predictive marker for the occurrence of this digestive toxicity has been validated to date. Modes of administration of steroids and dosage are not clearly defined, except in cases of acute abdomen; surgery is difficult to propose for patients with a poor prognosis. Infliximab is another option for the treatment of steroid-resistant ipilimumab-induced colitis but its use in metastatic melanoma raises questions of its possible impact on the evolution of cancer. We reviewed at least 19 cases published of infliximab administration for ipilimumab-mediated colitis. Unfortunately, tolerance and cancer evolution have scarcely been reported. Thus, because more patients are being treated with CTLA-4 blockade, management of ipilimumab-induced colitis requires further studies.
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PMID:Ipilimumab-induced acute severe colitis treated by infliximab. 2345 60

Abdominal actinomycosis as an aetiological cause of acute abdomen in immunocompetent patients is considered to be very rare. The authors present a case of a young patient with acute appendicitis in the terrain of specific colitis imitating caecal tumour. Especially nowadays, in the era of globalization, it would be an unnecessary mistake not to think of this aetiological unit when the pain and tenderness in the right hypogastrium with signs of peritonism are expressed.
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PMID:[Ileocaecal actinomycosis - a case report]. 2400 80


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