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Fulltext Arteriovenous malformation of the stomach: a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Latar NH, Phang KS, Yaakub JA, Muhammad R

Med J Malaysia, 2011 Jun;66(2):142-3.

Haemorrhage arising from gastric arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is rare and normally occurs in the elderly. Bleeding gastric AVM presenting in the younger age group is even rarer. We report a case of a 14 year old boy who presented with recurrent episodes of haematemesis. He subsequently underwent a proximal gastrectomy and the histological examination confirmed a gastric AVM. After reviewing the literature we believe this is the youngest ever reported case of bleeding gastric AVM reported in English literature.

Matched MeSH terms: Stomach/pathology*

Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori cagA, babA2, and dupA genotypes and correlation with clinical outcome in Malaysian patients with dyspepsia

Osman HA, Hasan H, Suppian R, Hassan S, Andee DZ, Abdul Majid N, et al.

Turk J Med Sci, 2015;45(4):940-6.

PMID: 26422871

BACKGROUND/AIM: The severity of disease outcome in dyspepsia has been attributed to Helicobacter pylori virulence genes. The aim of this study was to determine the distribution of H. pylori virulence genes (cagA, babA2, and dupA) and to determine whether or not there arises a significant correlation with clinical dyspepsia outcomes.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: H. pylori genotypes cagA, babA2, and dupA were identified by polymerase chain reactions from gastric biopsy samples in 105 H. pylori-positive patients.

RESULTS: The positive rates for cagA, babA2, and dupA genes in H. pylori dyspeptic patients were 69.5%, 41.0%, and 22.9%, respectivel cagA was more prevalent in Indians (39.7%), babA2 was more prevalent in Malays (39.5%), and dupA detection occurred more frequently in both Indians and Malays and at the same rate (37.5%). The Chinese inhabitants had the lowest prevalence of the three genes. Nonulcer disease patients had a significantly higher distribution of cagA (76.7%), babA2 (74.4%), and dupA (75.0%). There was no apparent association between these virulence genes and the clinical outcomes.

CONCLUSION: The lower prevalence of these genes and variations among different ethnicities implies that the strains are geographically and ethnically dependent. None of the virulence genes were knowingly beneficial in predicting the clinical outcome of H. pylori infection in our subjects.

Matched MeSH terms: Stomach/pathology

Fulltext Cystogastrocolic fold and associated atrophy of the gallbladder

Pamidi N, Nayak S, Vollala VR

Singapore Med J, 2008 Sep;49(9):e250-1.

PMID: 18830532

Peritoneal anomalies are common in humans. We report the presence of a cystogastrocolic fold associated with an abnormally small gallbladder in a 50-year-old male cadaver. Presence of this fold is one of the clinically important anomalies, which can result in atrophy of the gallbladder or congenital obstruction of the duodenum.

Matched MeSH terms: Stomach/pathology

Fulltext A 'Hairy' problem: Trichotillomania, trichophagia and trichobezoars

Yik YI, How AK

Singapore Med J, 2016 Jul;57(7):411.

PMID: 27439704 DOI: 10.11622/smedj.2016125

Matched MeSH terms: Stomach/pathology*

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