Chronic diarrhea is defined as the passage of loose or liquid stools, watery stools three or more times a day for at least 4 weeks and urgent need to evacuate or feelings of abdominal discomfort, or increased frequency of these, Read More …
Month: April 2021
Celiac Disease – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Celiac Disease/Coeliac disease is also known as celiac sprue is a unique autoimmune, genetic element (human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DQ2 and HLA-DQ8), based gluten-sensitive immune-mediated enteropathic with the auto-antigen involved (tissue transglutaminase (tTG)), and the environmental trigger (gluten) are all well-defined Read More …
Coeliac Disease – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Coeliac disease also known as celiac sprue is a unique autoimmune, genetic element (human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DQ2 and HLA-DQ8), based gluten-sensitive immune-mediated enteropathic with the auto-antigen involved (tissue transglutaminase (tTG)), and the environmental trigger (gluten) are all well-defined condition where Read More …
Chronic Diverticular Disease – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
Chronic Diverticular Disease/Diverticulosis is a clinical condition of inflammation due to micro-perforation and herniations of the colonic mucosa and submucosa through the muscle layers, in which multiple sac-like protrusions, abscesses, fistulas, peritonitis, and colonic stenosis, small pouches, or sacs, form Read More …
Acute Diverticulitis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
Acute Diverticulitis/Diverticulosis is a clinical condition of inflammation due to micro-perforation and herniations of the colonic mucosa and submucosa through the muscle layers, in which multiple sac-like protrusions, abscesses, fistulas, peritonitis, and colonic stenosis, small pouches, or sacs, form and Read More …
Complicated Diverticulitis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
Complicated Diverticulitis/Diverticulosis is a clinical condition of inflammation due to micro-perforation and herniations of the colonic mucosa and submucosa through the muscle layers, in which multiple sac-like protrusions, abscesses, fistulas, peritonitis, and colonic stenosis, small pouches, or sacs, form and Read More …
Uncomplicated Diverticulitis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
Uncomplicated Diverticulitis/Diverticulosis is a clinical condition of inflammation due to micro-perforation and herniations of the colonic mucosa and submucosa through the muscle layers, in which multiple sac-like protrusions, abscesses, fistulas, peritonitis, and colonic stenosis, small pouches, or sacs, form and Read More …
Diverticulitis – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Diverticulitis/Diverticulosis is a clinical condition of inflammation due to micro-perforation and herniations of the colonic mucosa and submucosa through the muscle layers, in which multiple sac-like protrusions, abscesses, fistulas, peritonitis, and colonic stenosis, small pouches, or sacs, form and push Read More …
Diverticulosis – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Diverticulosis is a clinical condition of inflammation due to micro-perforation and herniations of the colonic mucosa and submucosa through the muscle layers, in which multiple sac-like protrusions, abscesses, fistulas, peritonitis, and colonic stenosis, small pouches, or sacs, form and push Read More …
Barrett Esophagus – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Barrett esophagus (BE) is a pre-malignant, metaplastic alteration of the normal esophageal epithelium cell characterized by the conversion of the normal esophageal squamous epithelium into the metaplastic columnar epithelium with an increased risk of developing low-grade dysplasia to high-grade dysplasia Read More …
Abdominal Tuberculosis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
Abdominal Tuberculosis is a chronic granulomatous disease caused by the aerobic bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The mycobacterium reaches the gastrointestinal tract via the hematogenous spread, ingestion of infected sputum, or direct spread from infected contiguous lymph nodes and fallopian tubes [rx–rx]. It Read More …
Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis is a chronic granulomatous disease caused by the aerobic bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The mycobacterium reaches the gastrointestinal tract via the hematogenous spread, ingestion of infected sputum, or direct spread from infected contiguous lymph nodes and fallopian tubes [rx–rx]. It Read More …