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Open Journal of Gastroenterology (OJGas) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in Gastroenterology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of Gas…
Carlos Tornero, Simona Cioaia, Marina Llopis, Ana Ventura
Minimal hepatic encephalopathy is a subclinical disorder in patients with liver cirrhosis that may have an impact upon driving capacity. This study in highly selected patients without other confounding factors examines whether there is a relationship between…
John K. Chia, Andrew Y. Chia, David Wang, Rabiha El-Habbal
After decades of research, functional dyspepsia (FD) remains one of the most elusive gastrointestinal disorders. Endoscopic appearance of mild inflammation of the gastric mucosa without ulceration and microscopic evidence of mild chronic inflammation are ofte…
Koh Ging Wong
Rectal lymphoma is a rare colorectal tumor with incidence of 0.2% - 0.6%. We report a rare case of large rectal lymphoma. Our patient is a 48-year-old man, presented with 2 months history of per rectal bleed, altered bowel habits and weight loss. Clinical exa…
Amit Sastry, Maria Grigoreva, I. Michael Leitman
Introduction: Adhesive small bowel obstruction (SBO) is a disease process that has been difficult to prevent. Mechanical barriers and chemical agents exist to disrupt the formation of adhesions following surgery but each associated with medical risk and finan…
Hicham El Bouhaddouti, Tarik Souiki, Khalid Mazine, Abdelmalek Ousadden, Khalid Mazaz, Khalid Ait Taleb
Necrosis of the stomach is rare. It occurs when there is vascular anomalies, gastric volvulus or her-niation and in infectious gastritis. We report a case in which infectious gastritis leads to a necrotiz-ing gastritis that is treated with urgent gastrectomy.
Kenro Kawada, Tatsuyuki Kawano, Taro Sugimoto, Toshihiro Matsui, Masafumi Okuda, Taichi Ogo, Yuuichiro Kume, Yutaka Nakajima, Katsumasa Saito, Naoto Fujiwara, Tairo Ryotokuji, Yutaka Miyawaki, Yutaka Tokairin, Yasuaki Nakajima, Kagami Nagai, Takashi Ito
Aims: In order to observe the pharyngoesophageal junction, the trumpet maneuver with trans-nasal endoscopy was used. Its efficacy is reported here. Material and Methods: A 71-year-old man who underwent esophagectomy in esophageal cancer 2 years ago was admitt…
Noha A. El Nakeeb, Amir Helmy, Shereen A. Saleh, Heba M. Abdellah, Mostafa H. Abdel Aleem, Dina Elshennawy
The FIB-4 index is a simple and noninvasive algorithm consisting to evaluate liver fibrosis in chronic HCV infection. Aim: To evaluate the utility of FIB-4 index as a noninvasive marker to assess liver fibrosis in chronic HCV infection in comparison to transi…
Ahmed M. Badi, Vamanjore A. Naushad, Abraham John, Khalid H. Elnour
Characteristic biochemical changes have been documented in patients presenting with the symptoms and signs of gastric outlet obstruction. These changes usually consist of hypochloremic, hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis and hypocalcaemia with or without renal f…
Chun Yang, Zhaoda Zhang
Background: Regional lymph node invasion and metastasis may happen early during the progres-sion of gastric cancer. The lymphadenectomy is still the key method to treat lymph nodemetastasis. In the recent years, scientists have found some growth factors and r…
Pedro Pinheiro de Negreiros Bessa, Francivandi Coelho Barbosa, Ana Paula Santos do Carmo, Gildo Barreira Furtado, Fernanda Capelo Barroso, Silvia Helena Barem Rabenhosrt
Non-atrophic active chronic gastritis (ACG) is characterized by the presence of H. pylori in the gastric epithelium, known to be one of the first steps that precede progression to gastric adenocarcinoma. Inactive chronic gastritis ( ICG) suggests that the pat…
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Open Journal of Gastroenterology (OJGas) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in Gastroenterology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of Gas… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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