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The following report describes two patients who had chronic symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux and persistent histological esophagitis, despite aggressive medical antireflux therapy, who continued to have esophagitis and remained symptomatic post antireflux surgery (Nissen fundoplication). Both patients demonstrated a severe eosinophilic esophagitis with normal gastric and duodenal histology before and after surgery. Postoperatively, each received the diagnosis of allergic enteritis and both responded clinically and histologically to oral corticosteroids and an elemental diet.
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PMID:Failed Nissen fundoplication in two patients who had persistent vomiting and eosinophilic esophagitis. 934 84

This article reviews the following gastrointestinal infections: esophagitis, gastritis, duodenitis including duodenal ulcers, and enteritis (gastroenteritis). The epidemiology, risk factors, microbiology and pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, morbidity/mortality, and prevention are discussed in relation to the most important pathogens. The symptoms and pathogenesis of esophagitis caused by Candida albicans and herpes simplex are contrasted with the symptoms of esophagitis caused by Helicobacter pylori and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). The incidence of gastritis and gastric and duodenal ulcers caused by H. pylori is discussed. The treatment regimens of H. pylori infection recommended by the CDC are presented. Endoscopic findings in esophagitis, gastritis, and duodenal ulcers are presented and discussed. The difference in symptoms caused by viral agents (Norwalk virus), bacterial agents (enterotoxigenic E. coli), and parasites (Giardia lamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum) are compared and contrasted. The symptoms of infections of the terminal small bowel caused by Salmonella and Campylobacter jejuni and the symptoms of pure colonic infection, dysentery, caused by Shigella and enteroinvasive E. coli and Entamoeba histolytica are discussed. The treatment regimens for enteritis are presented.
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PMID:Infectious diseases of gastrointestinal tract in adolescents. 1091 24

Acute abdominal pain in children occurs often and requires rapid clarification. Hints as to the condition are often given by the first impression and the case history of the patient. When the clinical examination and laboratory results do not lead to a clear finding, imaging methods such as a sonography can clarify the case. The most common cause for abdominal pain in infants is acute enteritis, mostly brought about by rotaviruses. Additional diagnoses are abdominal hernia, malrotation, hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, invagination or gastroesophageal reflux. In school-age children, the classic finding is "appendicitis". This should be differentiated from constipation, gastritis, pancreatitis, sigmoid volvulus, bowel and intestinal obstruction or, perhaps, gallstone trouble.
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PMID:[Acute abdominal pain in childhood]. 1536 66

In the digestive tract there is evidence for the presence of high levels of endocannabinoids (anandamide and 2-arachidonoylglycerol) and enzymes involved in the synthesis and metabolism of endocannabinoids. Immunohistochemical studies have shown the presence of CB1 receptors on myenteric and submucosal nerve plexuses along the alimentary tract. Pharmacological studies have shown that activation of CB1 receptors produces relaxation of the lower oesophageal sphincter, inhibition of gastric motility and acid secretion, as well as intestinal motility and secretion. In general, CB1-induced inhibition of intestinal motility and secretion is due to reduced acetylcholine release from enteric nerves. Conversely, endocannabinoids stimulate intestinal primary sensory neurons via the vanilloid VR1 receptor, resulting in enteritis and enhanced motility. The endogenous cannabinoid system has been found to be involved in the physiological control of colonic motility and in some pathophysiological states, including paralytic ileus, intestinal inflammation and cholera toxin-induced diarrhoea. Cannabinoids also possess antiemetic effects mediated by activation of central and peripheral CB1 receptors. Pharmacological modulation of the endogenous cannabinoid system could provide a new therapeutic target for the treatment of a number of gastrointestinal diseases, including nausea and vomiting, gastric ulcers, secretory diarrhoea, paralytic ileus, inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer and gastro-oesophageal reflux conditions.
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PMID:Cannabinoids and the digestive tract. 1659 88

Oxygen free radicals in excessively high amounts are all very reactive chemically and can impose a detrimental influence on living organisms by provoking "oxidative stress" that can damage major cellular constituents. The latter includes the cell membrane, cytoplasmic proteins, and nuclear DNA. Conversely, nitric oxide (NO), superoxide anion, and related reactive oxygen species (ROS) when present in low amounts play an important role as regulatory mediators in signaling processes, through which, paradoxically, many ROS-mediated responses can protect the cells against oxidative stress by induction of "redox homeostasis." Therefore, diseases associated with free radical overproduction are provoked by "blazed ROS productions" far beyond the host's capacity to quench. Free radicals have been implicated in the pathogenesis of diverse gastrointestinal (GI) diseases including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), gastritis, enteritis, colitis and associated cancers as well as pancreatitis and liver cirrhosis. This article provides an overview of the role of oxidative stress in inflammation-based GI tract diseases, including reflux esophagitis, Helicobacter pylori-associated gastritis, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug-induced enteritis, ulcerative colitis, and associated colorectal cancer. The challenging issue that ROS can contribute to diverse gastrointestinal dysfunction, or manifest dual roles in cancer promotion or cancer suppression will also be discussed for the opportunity to enhance understanding of inflammation-based GI diseases.
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PMID:Oxidative stress in inflammation-based gastrointestinal tract diseases: challenges and opportunities. 2241 52

Eosinophils are commonly detected in normal mucosal biopsies from all sites within the gastrointestinal tract where they are dispersed in the lamina propria and, to a lesser extent, in the epithelium. The distinction between the upper limit of normal and abnormally increased tissue eosinophils is not well defined. However, eosinophils that infiltrate the epithelium in more than occasional numbers, coalesce to form aggregates, or show extensive degranulation are always abnormal and raise a broad differential diagnosis. Although the differential diagnosis of purely eosinophilic inflammation is largely limited to hypersensitivity reactions and some infections, they are increased in several gastrointestinal conditions, including gastroesophageal reflux disease, autoimmune gastritis, infections, drug reactions, inflammatory bowel disease, radiation enteritis, and collagen vascular disease. These disorders feature eosinophils as one component of a mixed inflammatory infiltrate that can, in some instances, be prominent enough to cause diagnostic confusion. The purpose of this review is to discuss the normal distribution of eosinophils in the gastrointestinal tract and the differential diagnosis of inflammatory conditions that feature prominent eosinophilia.
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PMID:Eosinophils in the GI tract: how many is too many and what do they mean? 2556 Jun 1