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Original Source: Postmortem gastric perforation (gastromalacia) mimicking abusive injury in sudden unexplained infant death.
Gastromalacia is a postmortem autolysis of gastric tissue that can culminate in gastric perforation. This entity is well-recognized by pathologists but is rarely encountered by diagnostic radiologists. We are reporting a case of sudden unexplained infant death (SUID) in which a boy was found to have pneumoperitoneum on postmortem radiographs, subsequently proved by autopsy to be caused by postmortem gastric perforation resulting from gastromalacia. It is important for radiologists to recognize this entity s...
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Diverticular Disease of the Stomach and Small Bowel
Ulcerative colitis is a disease that affects around 120,000 people in the UK and causes inflammation of the large intestine - or colon. Symptoms vary in severity from pain and discomfort, through mu...
Nexium is the 2nd most profitable drug in 2009, according to 2009 annual sales figures, where it generated just over $5m in sales for its company, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. Nexium is a pr...
Prevacid, produced by Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc netted $2.5 in sales in 2009, the 10th highest in the world. Prevacid, the trade name for lansoprazole, is a proton pump inhibitor d...
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What Is Stomach Cancer? What Is Gastric Cancer?
Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is the accumulation of an abnormal (malignant, cancerous) group of cells that form a tumor in any part of the stomach - in most cases, it refers to cancer...
Breath Test Could Detect And Diagnose Stomach Cancer
A simple test that analyzes the chemical signature of a patient's exhaled breath could help diagnose stomach cancer, according to new research by scientists from Israel and China reported online in t...
Are Liquid Nitrogen Cocktails Dangerous?
An 18-year-old British woman was out celebrating in a wine bar on 4th October 2012, drank a liquid nitrogen cocktail, became very ill with severe abdominal pain and shortness of breath and was admitte...
Irrigation No Better Than Suction for Perforated Appendicitis
Peritoneal irrigation offers no advantage over suction alone during laparoscopic surgery in children with perforated appendicitis, according to...
Low ghrelin – Reducing appetite at the cost of increased stress?
Ghrelin is a hormone released by the lining of the stomach that promotes feeding behavior. Decreasing ghrelin levels could potentially [...]
Every 3 Years Is Best for Stomach Cancer Tests: Study
MONDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- Three years is the optimal interval between stomach cancer screenings, according to a new Korean study. The recommendation could help reduce deaths from stomach ca...
Protein critical to gut lining repair
(Washington University School of Medicine) Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a protein essential to repairing the intestine's inner lining. That linin...
Villain stomach bug may have a sweet side: 'Bad' gut bacteria may help control diabetes
A stomach bacterium believed to cause health problems such as gastritis, ulcers, and gastric cancer may play a dual role by balancing the stomach's ecosystem and controlling body weight and glucose to...
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BACKGROUND: Throughout recent decades there has been noticeable change in the incidence of peptic ulcer disease and its complications. The aim of the present study was to determine the character of ch...
Introduction: Although prognosis in acute myocarditis is generally moderate, giant cell myocarditis shows poor prognosis. Giant cell myocarditis is considered to be an autoimmune disease, however, its...
Neonatal Myocardial Infarction or Myocarditis?
We report a 29 week-gestation preterm infant who presented during his second week of life with cardiogenic shock. Clinical presentation and first diagnostics suggested myocardial infarction, but echo...
A National Survey on Myocarditis Associated With the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic in Japan.
Background: An influenza pandemic occurred in 2009 and myocarditis associated with the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic was reported among hospitalized patients from August 2009. Methods and Results:...
An influenza pandemic occurred in 2009. We performed a retrospective national questionnaire survey about H1N1pdm2009 myocarditis to compare influenza A H1N1pdm2009 myocarditis in the pandemic (2009/20...
