Patient Cases

A 50-year-old female patient, with a medical history of hypertension and surgical removal of a large bowel polyp, presented with iron deficiency anemia. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed irregular surface of the mucosa in the gastric cardia, a large polyp which filled almost the whole fundus of the stomach.

Endoscopic polypectomy could not be performed due to the size, location and inability of visualization of the polyp’s base.

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The 66-year-old male patient who has had his control upper GI endoscopy presented a so-called simple loop esophagojejunostomy (type-A, according to Levine’s classification), meaning we could enter the blind loop into an approximately 10 cm depth. Interestingly, before having gone through ...    

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Acute esophageal necrosis (AEN) - also known as black esophagus - is a rare disorder associated with high mortality. We present two cases with the history of chronic lung disease presenting with severe esophageal disorder, showing typical signs of (esophagitis and) esophageal necrosis during upper endoscopy.    

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"A 30-year-old female patient was diagnosed with anal fissure and was treated for diarrhea.

She was admitted due to progressively worsening diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss and fever. The laboratory tests revealed…"

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Virus esophagitis is rare. This clinical presentation is characterized by odynophagia and a burning retrosternal sensation that may be mistaken for heartburn. Read about a young man with a Herpes Simplex typ 1 esophagitis.

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