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Gastric tuberculosis is quite rare and usually combined with pulmonary tuberculosis. Its diagnosis is so difficult as it is often unsuspected. We report a patient with gastric tuberculosis who presented with hematemesis in Korea. Upper endoscopy showed large, deep penetrating ulcer containing an exposed vessel and adherent clot in the body. Gastric biopsies revealed only chronic inflammation and no evidence of granuloma or malignancy. Diffuse mural thickening was noted on abdominal CT. The diagnosis was made postoperatively following gastrectomy for bleeding gastric ulcer. Microscopic examination of resected stomach showed peptic detritus and noncaseating granulomas. However, multiple caseating granulomas with Lagerhan's giant cells were found on the examination of lymph nodes. The patient was treated with antituberculous therapy for 12 months without any complications.
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Humans , Biopsy , Diagnosis , Endoscopy , Gastrectomy , Giant Cells , Granuloma , Hematemesis , Hemorrhage , Inflammation , Korea , Lymph Nodes , Stomach , Stomach Ulcer , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Tuberculosis , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary , UlcerABSTRACT
Loeffler's endocarditis is a recognized complication of diseases associated with eosinophilia. This disease is considered to be a part of the idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome, which is characterized by persistently elevated blood eosinohil counts with symptoms and signs of organ involvement especially in the heart, nervous system, and bone marrow. We have experienced a case of Loeffler's endocarditis in a 51 years old man who complained of leg pain due to acute closure of left iliac artery by emboli. We found left ventricular mural thrombus by echocardiography and confirmed Loeffler's endocarditis by endomyocardial biopsy. We present a case with the review of literatures.
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Humans , Middle Aged , Biopsy , Bone Marrow , Echocardiography , Eosinophilia , Heart , Hypereosinophilic Syndrome , Iliac Artery , Leg , Nervous System , Thromboembolism , ThrombosisABSTRACT
The development of renal cell carcinoma in auto-sornal dominant polycystic kidney disease hemodialyzed was rarely found. A sixty-six year old man has been hemodialyzed for four years. His end-stage renal failure was caused by autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. He presented the sudden onset of gross hematuria which does not cause any pain. Radi-ological examination showed the possibility of renal cell carcinoma in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. The renal cell carcinoma was confirmed through nephrectomy and pathological examination. In this article, we present a case of renal cell carcinoma in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease hemodialyzed.