Year 2025 / Volume 117 / Number 4

Editorial
175-178
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2025.11059/2024
Federico Soria Gálvez,
It is well known that digestive endoscopy is an essential diagnostic and of course therapeutic tool for the management of diseases of the digestive tract. Tens of millions of patients undergo digestive...
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Original
179-187
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10706/2024
Shuji Ikegami, Takeshi Yamamura, Masanao Nakamura, Keiko Maeda, Tsunaki Sawada, Eri Ishikawa, Takuya Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Furukawa, Takashi Hirose, Hiroki Kawashima,
Introduction: The PillCam™ patency capsule is useful to prevent capsule endoscope retention; however, visual confirmation of patency capsule excretion is challenging for many patients. Objective: We investigated...
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Original
188-197
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10832/2024
Jun Zhang, You Deng, Hailing Tang, Jiaming Liu, Wangli Si, Baihe Sun, Kun Zhuang,
Background and aims: recent guidelines emphasized that not all patients with recurrent polyps benefit from post-polypectomy surveillance, except for advanced adenomas recurrence. This study aimed to analyze...
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Original
198-204
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10719/2024
Juan Octavio Alonso Lárraga, José Miguel Jiménez-Gutiérrez, Marcos Meneses-Mayo, Angélica Hernández-Guerrero, Mónica Lizzette Serrano-Arévalo, Lidia Faridi Villegas-González,
Introduction: diagnosing perihilar cholangiocarcinoma can be challenging. Previous studies suggest that the sensitivity of taking three cholangioscopy-guided biopsies is approximately 70 %. We hypothesized...
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Original
205-212
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10521/2024
Carles Iniesta-Navalón, Manuel Ríos-Saorín, Lorena Rentero-Redondo, Isabel Nicolás-de Prado, Rosa Gómez-Espín, Elena Urbieta-Sanz,
Background: understanding the relationship between ustekinumab (UST) exposure and clinical outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) induction is crucial. However, evidence remains limited, highlighting...
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Digestive Diseases Image
213-214
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9752/2023
Yibing Hu, Jin Ding, Qunying Wang,
A 25-year-old man presented with 3-day history of abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and bloody stools. The contrast-enhanced CT examination of the abdomen detected thickening and edema of intestinal...
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Digestive Diseases Image
215-216
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9760/2023
Juan Antonio Morbelli, María Ángeles Luceño Ros, María Covadonga Álvarez Fernández, Uxía Sobrino Castro,
We present the case of an 82-year-old woman with history of right colon adenocarcinoma in whom a routine control scan is performed using a dual-layer detector spectral CT scanner. Conventional CT scan...
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Digestive Diseases Image
217-218
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.9776/2023
Xingcen Chen, Deliang Liu, Rong Li,
A 77-year-old male presented with recurrent diarrhea for more than 2 years, aggravated and a 1-month history of a rectal mass. High-definition white light colonoscopy showed an approximately circumferential...
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Letter
219
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10300/2024
Javier Pérez-Valenzuela, Herman Aguirre, Gabriel Mezzano,
Diphyllobothrium spp., also known as fish tapeworms, is the largest human tapeworm, reaching up to 25 meters of length. Human are considered the definitive host in the Diphyllobothrium lifecycle. Adult...
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Letter
219-220
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10241/2024
Jorge Barajas, Carolina Delgado, Raquel Lomas, Natalia Arietti, Pedro Barrera, Olga Ramos, Julio Valle, Rafael A. Gómez,
Gastrointestinal bleeding due to portal hypertension is a major complication in patients with cirrhosis, commonly attributed to esophagogastric varices. However, bleeding from ectopic varices accounts...
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Letter
221-222
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10256/2024
María Marco Gómez, Juan Jesús Rubio García, Francisca María Peiró, Ester Gracia Alegría, Emilio Ruiz de la Cuesta García-Tapia, Manuel Romero Simo, José Manuel Ramia Ángel, Silvia Carbonell Morote,
We present the case of a patient diagnosed with carcinomatosis when admitted urgently for an occlusive condition. It is the immunohistochemistry that clarifies which is the primary tumor. Sigma neoplasia...
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Letter
222-223
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10366/2024
Carlos Alventosa Mateu, María Dolores Ocete Mochón, Juan José Urquijo Ponce, Mercedes Latorre Sánchez, Inmaculada Castelló Miralles, Miguel García Deltoro, Concepción Gimeno Cardona, Moisés Diago,
Alert systems are proving to be useful to increase hepatitis C virus (HCV) diagnoses and facilitating access to antiviral treatment. Since 2020, our health department has had a fully automated alert system...
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Letter
223-224
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10397/2024
Maki Setake, Yasuhiro Uechi, Yuzuru Kinjo, Masaru Miyazato, Noriya Nakachi, Ryosaku Tomiyama, Namio Higa, Akira Hokama,
A 73-year-old man was admitted with four weeks of intermittent fever. He had a history of total aortic arch replacement for aortic arch aneurysm four years prior. CT scans showed no abnormalities before...
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Letter
224-225
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10319/2024
María Reyes Busta Nistal, Lourdes del Olmo Martínez, Luis Fernández Salazar,
A 76-year-old patient, admitted to the department of cardiac surgery, anticoagulated, started with acute dysphagia. An upper endoscopy revealed a blue mucosa from the upper to distal esophagus, with narrowing...
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Letter
225-227
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10373/2024
Mariano Gómez Rubio, Pierina Monasterios Maestra, Francisca Inmaculada Camacho Castañeda, Guillermo Castillo-López, Francisco Javier Esteban, Lucía Phares, Sergio Sevilla,
Sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation (SANT) is a rare benign lesion of the spleen. SANT cannot be distinguished from other benign or malignant splenic tumors based on imaging findings. So, diagnosis...
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Letter
227
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10257/2024
Íñigo Jon Garaizabal Azkue, Horacio Alonso Galán, Paul Gisasola Dorronsoro, Ainara Maiz Arregui,
We report the case of a 48-year-old woman who was admitted to hospital because of the worsening of a pain condition she had suffered for the last 3 months. Her personal history was notable for personality...
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Letter
227-228
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10299/2024
Celia Gómez Labrador, Flor M. Fernández-Gordón Sánchez, Lorena Sancho del Val, Carlos Castaño-Milla,
A 68-year-old male presented to the Emergency Department with a one-month history of intermittent epigastrium pain. Laboratory tests revealed leukocytosis and elevated lipase (4129 UI/l), with normal liver...
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Letter
228-229
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10282/2024
Carlos Boix Clemente, Laura Peño Muñoz, Lidia Martí Romero, Gloria Alemany Pérez, María Dolores Pérez Zahonero, Pablo Olcina Domínguez, Vanesa Martínez Escapa, Clara Navarro Peiró,
We present the case of a patient with smoking, alcoholism, cirrhosis and HIV who was endoscopically diagnosed with esophageal candidiasis due to an episode of dysphagia. After treatment with antifungals...
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Letter
230
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.10058/2023
Luís Miguel Relvas, Francisco Velasco, Tânia Gago, Sónia Barros, Isabel Carvalho, Paulo Caldeira,
Esophagitis dissecans superficialis is an extremely rare benign illness. Although an association with medications, skin conditions, heavy smoking, and physical trauma has been reported, most cases remain...
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Letter
230-231
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10348/2024
Yi Lu, Hailing Liu, Xiaoying Lou, Jiachen Sun,
Patients with ulcerative colitis are at increased risk for colorectal neoplasia compared to the general population. The risk factors include family history of colorectal cancer, wide extent of colitis,...
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Letter
231-232
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2023.10074/2023
Zhihao Han, Fengyan Wang, Hongsheng Zhang,
A 71-year-old male patient presented to our emergency department with a 1-day history of abdominal pain after an accidental fall. Laboratory test results were as follows: a white blood cell count of 2.32...
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Letter
232-233
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10298/2024
Marta García Calonge, Maria García Martínez, Óscar González Bernardo, Sabino Riestra,
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) diagnosis requires clinical, laboratory, endoscopic and histologic findings, and sometimes it can become a challenge. An exhaustive differential diagnosis with infectious...
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Letter
233-234
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10334/2024
Liyuan Lv, Guinan Liu, Jie Xu, Juncheng Luo, Ling Peng, Yiwei Ding, Weiwen Shi,
Syphilitic proctitis is a rare sexually transmitted disease caused by spirochete pallidum infecting the rectal mucosa. It usually has no specific clinical manifestations and is easily misdiagnosed with...
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Letter
234-235
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10770/2024
David Barquero Declara, Alba Juan Juan, Noemí Caballero Suárez, Alejandro Blasco Pelicano, Alfredo Mata Bilbao,
We present a review of 9 patients (44.4% women, 67.7 +/- 7.3 years) who had undergone diverticular peroral endoscopic myotomy (D-POEM) for symptomatic epiphrenic diverticula (ED) at our Unit from July...
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Letter
235-236
DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10737/2024
María Orts, Daniel Abad Pérez,
Although most melanomas are diagnosed in early stages of the disease, a significant percentage show metastases from the beginning or during follow-up. The most common route is lymphatic, while hematogenous...
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