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Tuberculosis of the sigmoid colon is a rare disorder. An 80-year-old man visited Bongseng Memorial Hospital for medical examination. A colonoscopy was performed, and a lesion in the sigmoid colon that was suspected to be colon cancer was found. A biopsy was performed, and tuberculous enteritis with chronic granulomatous inflammation was diagnosed. Intestinal tuberculosis is most frequent in the ileocecal area, followed by the ascending colon, transverse colon, duodenum, stomach, and sigmoid colon, in descending order. Hence, we report a case of intestinal tuberculosis in the sigmoid colon, which is rare and almost indistinguishable from colon cancer.
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Aged, 80 and over , Humans , Biopsy , Colon , Colon, Ascending , Colon, Sigmoid , Colon, Transverse , Colonic Neoplasms , Colonoscopy , Duodenum , Enteritis , Inflammation , Stomach , Tuberculosis , Tuberculosis, GastrointestinalABSTRACT
ABO-incompatible kidney transplantations have been performed successfully in Korea without splenectomy using plasmapheresis, anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody infusions and other immunosuppressants. However, there is no report of a case of ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation in a Jehovah's Witness. Hence, we report our experience of successful ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation without blood products in a Jehovah's Witness. The recipient was treated with six sessions of plasmapheresis and he received intravenous rituximab before transplantation. Immunosuppressive regimen consisted of tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil and steroid. The replacement fluid for plasmapheresis was 5%% albumin solution instead of fresh frozen plasma. We measured the clotting factors before and after plasmapheresis and used cryoprecipitate to prevent bleeding.
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Humans , Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived , Hemorrhage , Immunosuppressive Agents , Kidney , Kidney Transplantation , Korea , Living Donors , Mycophenolic Acid , Plasma , Plasmapheresis , Rituximab , Splenectomy , Tacrolimus , Transplants , Wit and Humor as TopicABSTRACT
Duodenal abscess is a form of phlegmonous enterocolitis and is a rarely reported disease throughout the entire world. Duodenal abscess mostly develops from complications of duodenal ulcer perforation, and may result in a clinically fatal course because it is difficult to differentiate from some diseases such as gastric ulcer, gastric cancer, hepatobiliary disorders etc.. The therapeutic gold standard is surgical intervention including abscess removal and drainage. We experienced a case of duodenal abscess that expressed non-specific symptoms, weight loss and epigastric pain, and diagnosed by gastrointestinal endoscopy, abdominal computed tomography. We successfully treated it through surgical intervention with intravenous antibiotics.
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Abscess , Anti-Bacterial Agents , Cellulitis , Drainage , Duodenal Ulcer , Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal , Enterocolitis , Foreign Bodies , Stomach Neoplasms , Stomach Ulcer , Weight LossABSTRACT
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Many studies have reported the correlation between the spot urine protein to creatinine (P/C) ratio and 24-hour urinary protein amounts in patients with glomerulonephritis. This correlation has also been reported in Western patients with kidney transplants, but no prior study has reported on this association in Eastern populations. We compare the correlation between the spot urine P/C ratio and 24-hour urinary protein amounts and the associating factors in Korean patients with kidney transplants. METHODS: The study included 66 patients with kidney transplants from our hospital. The subjects had urine samples evaluated between January 2005 and July 2010. We compared 24-hour urinary protein amounts with a spot urine P/C ratio collected in the morning and analyzed the factors affecting the correlation in each group. RESULTS: The 24-hour urinary protein amounts were 1.31 +/- 1.69 g/day and the spot urine P/C ratio was 1.29 +/- 1.70 in all subjects. A strong positive linear correlation was observed between the 24-hour urinary protein amounts and the spot urine P/C ratio (r = 0.95). The primary factor affecting accurate quantitation of proteinuria using the spot urine P/C ratio was gender (p = 0.003). The spot urine P/C ratio and the 24-hour urinary protein levels were 1.05 +/- 1.51 and 1.26 +/- 1.68 g/day in males (p = 0.005) and 1.57 +/- 1.88 and 1.36 +/- 1.72 g/day in females (p = 0.047), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: We determined that the spot urine P/C ratio provides an accurate estimate of 24-hour urinary protein levels in Korean patients with kidney transplants.