Jorge A Olmos,María Marta Piskorz,Marcelo F Vela
Jorge A Olmos
GERD is a highly prevalent disease in our country. It has a deep impact in patient´s quality of life, representing extremely high costs regarding health. The correct understanding of its pathophysiology is crucial for the rational use of d...
Fernando Sarmiento Quintero,Adolfo J Ariza,Fabiola Barboza García et al.
Fernando Sarmiento Quintero et al.
Obesity is an epidemic with important health repercussions in addition to high treatment-related costs. Between 2006 and 2007 the WHO developed new assessment tools, which aren't being globally used. In fact, there is no unified problem man...
Roque Sáenz,Edison Salazar
Roque Sáenz
Carlos Ocampo,Sandra Basso
Carlos Ocampo
Ribavirin treatment of a patient with chronic hepatitis E. First case reported in Latin America [0.03%]
利巴韦林治疗慢性戊型肝炎病人。拉丁美洲首例报告
Fernando Gruz,María Silvina Munné,Jorge González et al.
Fernando Gruz et al.
We describe a clinical case of a kidney transplant patient who presented a sudden elevation of his liver function tests. Once we ruled out the most frequent causes of acute hepatitis, serum tests for Hepatitis E were performed. Hepatitis E ...
Case Reports
Acta gastroenterologica Latinoamericana. 2016 Jun;46(2):122-5. DOI: 2016
[An infrequent cause of iron-deficiency anemia: Ménétrier disease] [0.03%]
[Menetrier病——一种罕见的缺铁性贫血病因]
Ana García García de Paredes,Javier Martínez González,Laura Crespo Pérez
Ana García García de Paredes
Ménétrier disease is a rare condition of an unknown origin, with a wide spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms at presentation. Diagnosis is made through the combination of clinical, analytical, endoscopic and histological data. Surgery ...
[Rapunzel syndrome as a cause of obstruction and intestinal perforation] [0.03%]
Rapunzel综合征作为肠梗阻和肠穿孔的病因
Patricia Guzmán Rojas,Eduar Bravo Paredes,Catherina Pichilingue Reto
Patricia Guzmán Rojas
The following is a case report involving a 16 year old female with trichotillomania as an antecedent. This patient presented to the Emergency Room with a chief complaint of early satiety and persistent abdominal pain for the past 3 months. ...
Hugo Daniel Ruiz,Fernando Álvarez,Ignacio Solari et al.
Hugo Daniel Ruiz et al.
90% of cases of intestinal obstruction caused by intestinal malrotation occur in children under 1 year of age, being very uncommon in adults. A female patient of 27 years of age consults with abdominal pain, vomiting, abdominal distention, ...
Case Reports
Acta gastroenterologica Latinoamericana. 2016 Jun;46(2):110-3. DOI: 2016
Luis A Blanco,Mariano Palermo,Eduardo Houghton et al.
Luis A Blanco et al.
Hemangiomas are benign vascular tumors, whose origin comes from the embryonic mesodermal tissue remains. The liver is the most common location. Its location in the teres ligament is extremely rare. This is a 59 years old male admitted becau...
Case Reports
Acta gastroenterologica Latinoamericana. 2016 Jun;46(2):106-9. DOI: 2016
Colorectal cancer screening in Latin America: Are we still in the Stone Age? [0.03%]
拉美结直肠癌筛查：我们还处于石器时代吗？
Karla P Aedo,Leslye F Conde,Reneé Pereyra-Elías
Karla P Aedo