Milk-derived extracellular vesicles and gut health by Barathan Muttiah, Jia Xian Law

“…Milk-derived EVs have been shown to influence gut microbiota, promote gut barrier integrity, support tissue repair and regeneration, modulate immune responses, and potentially aid in managing conditions like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colorectal cancer. This review discusses the current understanding of milk-EVs’ effects on gut health, highlighting their potential therapeutic applications and future research directions. …”
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Constrictive Bronchiolitis and Ulcerative Colitis by Heather Ward, Kendra L Fisher, Ranjit Waghray, Jody L Wright, Sharon E Card, Donald W Cockcroft

“…Pulmonary complications occur in an estimated 0.21% of patients with inflammatory bowel disease. The most common presentation of pulmonary manifestations is large airway disease, such as tracheobronchitis, chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis. …”
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Jejunal Intussusception in Adolescent Crohn’s Disease: An Extremely Rare Complication by Narendra Pandit, Sujan Gautam, Tek Narayan Yadav, Lawa Kumar Mandal, Kunal Bikram Deo

“…Proximal small bowel intussusception occurring in an adolescent Crohn’s disease patient is an extremely rare entity. …”
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Ileocaecal Intussusception with a Lead Point: Unusual MDCT Findings of Active Crohn’s Disease Involving the Appendix by Ebru Ozan, Gokce Kaan Atac, Egemen Akincioglu, Mete Keskin, Kamil Gulpinar

“…Adult intussusception is a rare entity accounting for 1% of all bowel obstructions. Unlike intussusceptions in children, which are idiopathic in 90% of cases, adult intussusceptions have an identifiable cause (lead point) in the majority of cases. …”
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Peculiar Presentation of Ulcerative Colitis by Hamdy M. A. Ahmed, Amany Diab, Ayman Ahmed, Samar Abohamad, Hala Elgendy

“…Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory and recurrent disorder that is characterized by bowel inflammation. Among the extraintestinal manifestations (EIMs) that associate UC are the joints and renal manifestations. …”
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Embolization of a Bleeding Duodenal Arteriovenous Malformation with a Conformable Embolic Material (Obsidio): Case Report by Kalei Hering, Patrick Sutphin, Sanjeeva Kalva

“…Endoscopy showed angioectasia in the duodenum and small bowel. Angiography revealed a simple, but actively bleeding AVM in the duodenum fed by the inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery, a nidus, and an outflow vein that drained into the portal vein. …”
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Pain Management in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders by Antonio Vigano, Eduardo Bruera

“…Clinical aspects of pain associated with irritable esophagus, functional dyspepsia, biliary dysmotility, inflammatory bowel syndrome and proctalgia fugax are reviewed. …”
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Multilevel subdural and epidural hematoma after percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP): a case report and literature review by Fuyuan Deng, Hailong Liu

“…After conservative treatment, the sensory and motor function of the right lower limb returned to normal, and the bowel and urine function returned to normal, but the muscle strength of the left lower limb did not fully recover.ConclusionBlood pressure should be well controlled during the perioperative period for elderly patients with hypertension. …”
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Recurrent Inflammatory Myositis as an Extra-Intestinal Manifestation of Dormant Ulcerative Colitis in a Patient on Long-Term Mesalamine by Srikanth Naramala, Venu Madhav Konala, Sreedhar Adapa, Pravallika Amudala, Romeo C. Castillo, Nikhil Agrawal, Hemant Dhingra

“…Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic systemic inflammatory condition primarily involving the large bowel mucosa with relapsing and remitting episodes. …”
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Visceral pain and sensitisation in women with dysmenorrhea: a narrative review by Zeltia Naia, Sergio Patiño-Núñez, Olalla Bello

“…Women with dysmenorrhea have more possibilities to develop gastrointestinal pathologies like irritable bowel syndrome.…”
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Bluish Discolouration of Urine Drainage Tube and Bag in a Female Patient with Spina Bifida, Paraplegia, and Suprapubic Cystostomy by Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul M. Soni

“…This patient was advised to change the urine bag every day, and was prescribed senna to facilitate bowel evacuation. She was reassured that bluish discolouration of the urine drainage tube and bag was a transient, benign phenomenon and not indicative of any underlying pathology. …”
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Dynamic Change of Intestinal Duplication in an Adult Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review by Abhishek Shah, Jimin Du, Yutian Sun, Dianbo Cao

“…More than 80% of cases occur before the age of two years as an acute abdomen, bowel obstruction or other complications associated with it. …”
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Implementing recommendations for routine mismatch repair (MMR) immunohistochemistry (IHC) testing of endometrial cancer and subsequent patient management by Jo Morrison, Mohamed Shawky, Maria Murrey

“…Seven patients were diagnosed with Lynch syndrome; all were referred for bowel screening and Helicobacter pylori testing. …”
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Genital and Intertriginous Rashes Refractory to Antimicrobial Treatments: Have You Thought about Crohn’s Disease? by Candelaria O’Farrell, Annette Roberts, Claudia Riera Canales, Carrie Firestone Baum, Lina Maria Felipez

“…Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that can have multiple extraintestinal manifestations and can develop prior to, following, or simultaneously with gastrointestinal tract involvement (Aberumand et al. (2017), Georgious et al. (2006), Larsen et al. (2010), Levine and Burakoff (2011), Louis et al. (2018)). …”
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The Function of Necroptosis and Its Treatment Target in IBD by Francis Atim Akanyibah, Yi Zhu, Tao Jin, Dickson Kofi Wiredu Ocansey, Fei Mao, Wei Qiu

“…Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which encompasses Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), is a complicated illness whose exact cause is yet unknown. …”
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Dual repair of traumatic flank hernia using laparoscopic and open approaches: a case report by Yoonjung Heo, Dong Hun Kim

“…Such techniques may be appropriate and result in feasible outcomes in hemodynamically stable patients with large TFH who are strongly suspected of having bowel herniation or concomitant intraperitoneal injuries. …”
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Role of Genetic Alterations in the NLRP3 and CARD8 Genes in Health and Disease by G. V. Paramel, A. Sirsjö, K. Fransén

“…Several studies have been performed on the association of the genetic alterations in genes encoding NLRP3 and CARD8 with the complex diseases with inflammatory background, like inflammatory bowel disease, cardiovascular diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 1 diabetes. …”
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Pneumoperitoneum from vaginal cuff dehiscence following blunt trauma in a patient with a history of robotic hysterectomy in Korea: a case report by Byung Hee Kang, Donghwan Choi

“…Although she underwent an emergency laparotomy, no bowel perforation was detected. Instead, a rupture was found at the site of a hysterectomy that had been performed 8 months earlier. …”
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A Case Presentation of a Patient with Microsatellite Instability and BRAF Mutant Metastatic Colon Cancer and Bibliography Update by K. Thomopoulou, M. Tzardi, D. Mavroudis, I. Souglakos

“…This is a case of a patient who presented to the emergency department with acute abdominal pain due to bowel obstruction. An extended right hemicolectomy with ileosigmoid anastomosis due to an obstructing mass on the splenic flexure was urgently performed. …”
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Lanreotide Autogel in the Treatment of Persistent Diarrhea following a Total Colectomy by Patrick Schoeters, Karl De Pooter

“…The patient’s stool transit was markedly improved (type 4 or type 5 according to the Bristol Stool Chart compared to type 7 before the treatment), positively affecting the patient’s quality of life (mean score of 2.1 on the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Quality of Life questionnaire compared to 3.9 before the treatment). …”
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