Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (gastroenterology)

Acute mesenteric ischemia

Acute mesenteric ischemia - a violation of blood circulation in the intestine, caused by embolism, thrombosis or a decrease in blood flow. This leads to the release of mediators, inflammation and, ultimately, a heart attack. The nature of abdominal pain does not correspond to the data of a physical examination.

Ischemic bowel disease

Ischemic disease of the intestine (abdominal ischemic disease) - acute or chronic insufficiency of blood supply in the basins of the celiac, upper or lower mesenteric (mesenteric) arteries, leading to insufficient blood flow in certain areas or in all parts of the intestine.

Special forms of chronic colitis

Eosinophilic enterocolitis (or gastroenteritis) is a manifestation of type I allergic reaction to food allergen, which can not always be determined. The most often ill people aged 30-45 years.

Allergic bowel disease

The defeat of the small and large intestine can be an independent and the only manifestation or one of the components of the general allergic reaction of the organism. The most common entero-and colopathy occur with food and drug allergy, less often - with serum sickness, polyposis and other forms of general allergosis.

Crohn's disease: treatment

Treatment of Crohn's disease today is carried out on the basis of empirical principles, that is, the selection of medicines that have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effects.

Crohn's disease: diagnosis

In the initial stage of the disease, against the background of a dull (not shiny) mucous membrane, erosion-aphthae, surrounded by whitish granulations, are visible. On the walls of the intestine in the lumen there are mucus and pus. As the disease progresses and the activity of the process increases, the mucosa thickens unevenly, acquires a whitish appearance, large ulcers (superficial or deep) appear, more often longitudinally located, there is a narrowing of the gut lumen (cobblestone bridge pattern).

Crohn's disease: symptoms

Common symptoms are due to intoxication and malabsorption syndrome and include: weakness, malaise, decreased performance, fever to subfebrile, weight loss, swelling (due to protein loss), hypovitaminosis (bleeding gums, cracks in the corners of the mouth, pellagic dermatitis, worsening of twilight vision) , pain in bones and joints

Crohn's disease: causes and pathogenesis

The etiology of Crohn's disease is unknown. The infectious nature of the disease is most widely discussed. The connection of Crohn's disease with viruses, chlamydia, Yersinia, disturbances of the intestinal microbiocenosis (reduction of the number of bifidobacteria with a simultaneous increase in the number of pathogenic enterobacteria, anaerobic microorganisms, potentially pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli) is suggested.

Crohn's disease

Crohn's disease is a pathology of the intestine, which can also affect other areas of the gastrointestinal tract, but often the inflammatory process affects the large and small intestine.

Nonspecific ulcerative colitis

Nonspecific ulcerative colitis is a disease of unknown etiology, characterized by the development of necrotizing inflammatory process of the mucous membrane of the large intestine with the formation of ulcers, hemorrhages and pus.

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