• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.330-333
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• 2012

Aortoenteric fistula is a rare but potentially fatal condition causing massive gastrointestinal bleeding. In particular, double primary aortoenteric fistulae are vanishingly rare. We encountered a 75-year-old male patient suffering from abdominal pain, hematochezia, hematemesis, and hypotension. His computed tomography images showed abdominal aortic aneurysm and suspected aortoenteric fistulae. During surgery, we found two primary aortoenteric fistulae. The one fistula was detected between the abdominal aorta and the third portion of the duodenum, and the other fistula was detected between the abdominal aorta and the sigmoid colon. We conducted the closure of the fistulae, the exclusion of the aneurysm, and axillo-bifemoral bypass with a polytetrafluoroethylene graft. The patient was discharged with no complications on the 21st postoperative day.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.66-70
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• 2015

Meckel diverticulum (MD) is one of the most common congenital gastrointestinal anomalies and occurs in 1.2-2% of the general population. MD usually presents with massive painless rectal bleeding, intestinal obstruction or inflammation in children and adults. Suppurative Meckel diverticulitis is uncommon in children. An experience is described of a 3-year-old girl with suppurative inflammation in a tip of MD. She complained of acute colicky abdominal pain, vomiting and periumbilical erythema. Laparoscopic surgery found a relatively long MD with necrotic and fluid-filled cystic end, which was attatched to abdominal wall caused by inflammation. Herein, we report an interesting and unusual case of a suppurative Meckel diverticulitis presenting as periumbilical cellulitis in a child. Because of its varied presentations, MD might always be considered as one of the differential diagonosis.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.197-204
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• 1989

저자들은 위암을 동반한 다발성 골수종 1례를 경험하였기에 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.80-85
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• 2019

Purpose: Abernethy malformation is a rare condition, which was first described in 1793 as a congenital extrahepatic porto-systemic shunt (CEPS) directing splanchnic blood flow into the inferior vena cava. Eighty cases have been published so far that reported CEPS, while in Korea, very few cases have been reported. Through this study, we present 6 cases of patients diagnosed with CEPS at Samsung Medical Center and compare these with other such cases published in France and China. Methods: We reviewed clinical, laboratory, and imaging data of 6 children with CEPS in our pediatric clinic between 2004 and 2017. Results: A total of 6 children with CEPS was included in this study, namely, one with type 1a, two with type 1b, and three with type 2 CEPS. The most common presenting symptom was gastrointestinal bleeding (50.0%). Therapeutic interventions included shunting vessel ligation (16.7%) in type 2 CEPS and liver transplantation (16.7%) in type 2 CEPS patient with suddenly developed hepatic encephalopathy. Conclusion: There is no consensus guideline for the optimal management of patients with CEPS. Large-sample studies regarding CEPS are needed to evaluate the characteristics of patients with CEPS and determine the treatment guideline for CEPS.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.400-406
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• 2019

We report a 12-month-old female infant who had a history of neonatal sepsis with liver micro-abscesses that resolved with intravenous antibiotics during neonatal period. During her neonatal admission period, no umbilical vein catheter was inserted. Also, she did not undergo any abdominal surgeries or had a postnatal history of necrotizing enterocolitis. However, the child developed upper gastrointestinal bleeding in form of hematemesis and melena secondary to esophageal varices at the age of 12 months with an extra-hepatic portal vein obstruction with cavernous transformation and portal hypertension subsequently. The child underwent a successful endoscopic injection sclerotherapy. She is now 20-month-old and has portal hypertension but otherwise asymptomatic. We are proposing the possibility of a delayed-onset portal hypertension as a complication of liver abscess and neonatal sepsis.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제60권1호
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• pp.35-38
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• 2022

Cerebral toxoplasmosis is often life-threatening in an immunocompromised patient due to delayed diagnosis and treatment. Several differential diagnoses could be possible only with preoperative brain images of cerebral toxoplasmosis which show multiple rim-enhancing lesions. Due to the rarity of cerebral toxoplasmosis cases in Korea, the diagnosis and treatment are often delayed. This paper concerns a male patient whose cerebral toxoplasmosis was activated 21 years post kidney transplantation. Brain open biopsy was decided to make an exact diagnosis. Cerebral toxoplasmosis was confirmed by immunohistochemistry and PCR analyses of the tissue samples. Although cerebral toxoplasmosis was under control with medication, the patient did not recover clinically and died due to sepsis and recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.193-199
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• 2006

목 적: 증후성 멕켈 게실 환자들의 임상 증상, 검사 소견, 조직학적 소견, 치료법 등에 대한 임상적 고찰을 통하여 그 특징을 알아보고 진단과 치료에 도움이 되고자 하였다. 방 법: 1997년 1월부터 2006년 3월까지 6개 대학교병원에서 멕켈 게실로 진단받은 58명의 환자를 대상으로 후향적 조사를 통해 임상 증상, 검사실 소견, 조직학적 소견, 진단 방법, 수술 방법 등을 분석하였다. 결 과: 성별 비율은 남자 43예, 여자 15예로 2.8 : 1이었다. 증상이 발생한 연령은 평균 47개월로 생후 1일부터 27세였고, 2세 이하가 31명(53%), 2~5세가 13명(22%), 5세 이상이 14명(25%)으로 5세 이전에 대부분 증상이 나타나 진단되었다. 주요 증상으로는 출혈(78%)이 가장 많았고, 구토(43%), 복통(43%), 보챔(19%), 복부팽만(13%), 발열(9%) 등이 있었다. 임상 양상은 장관 출혈이 76%로 가장 많았고, 그 외 장폐색(34%), 천공(13%), 게실염(9%), 혈성 복수(2%)를 보였다. 장폐색을 유발한 원인으로는 장중첩(38%), 내탈장(27%), 띠(16%), 염전(11%), 함입(5%)의 순이었다. 멕켈 스캔이 70%의 환자에서 시행되었고 이소성 위 점막이 있었던 26예 중 21예에서 양성을 보였다. 그 외 복부 전산화 단층 촬영(19%), 복부 초음파(24%), 진단적 개복술(20%) 등이 진단에 이용되었다. 진단이 되기까지 걸린 시간은 평균 51일(1일~4년)이었다. 수술을 받았던 55명 중 44명(80%)이 소장 부분 절제술, 11명(20%)이 게실 절제술을 받았으며 술 후 합병증은 없었다. 게실의 위치는 회맹판에서 평균 45.9 cm (2~120 cm) 근위부에 있었고 게실의 길이는 평균 3.2 cm (1~10 cm), 직경은 평균 1.8cm (0.5~6 cm)로 대부분 5 cm 이하였다. 게실의 이소성 조직은 위 점막이 26예(48%), 위 점막과 췌장점막이 동시에 있었던 경우가 5예(9%)였다. 결 론: 증후성 멕켈 게실은 주로 5세 이하 남자에서 호발하며 출혈과 장폐색 소견을 보이는 경우가 많으나 다양한 임상적 발현을 보인다. 원인이 뚜렷하지 않은 장관의 출혈이나 반복성 장중첩증, 장폐색의 소견이 있는 경우 멕켈 게실을 염두에 두고 멕켈 스캔과 복부 초음파 검사, 복부 컴퓨터 단층 촬영을 즉시 시행하고 임상적으로 의심이 되면 시험 개복술로 확인하는 것이 필요하다.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.466-472
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• 2002

목 적 : Meckel 게실은 장출혈, 장폐색, 감염, 천공등의 합병증에 의한 증상이 나타날 수 있으며 급성 복증을 일으키는 다른 질환과 감별진단이 어렵고 진단이 지연되기 쉽다. 저자들은 Meckel 게실 환자에서 임상증상과 조직학적 소견을 비교하여 신속히 진단하고 치료하는데 도움이 되고자 하였다. 방 법 : 1993년 10월부터 2001년 8월까지 이화의료원에서 진단한 Meckel 게실 10례의 의무기록을 후향적으로 조사하여 임상증상과 조직학적 소견 등을 분석하였다. 결 과 : 1) 환자의 연령은 7일-14세의 분포를 보였고, 6세 이전(60%)이 많았다. 남녀비는 2.3 : 1로 남아에서 많았다. 2) 주요증상은 무통성 하부 장출혈, 복통, 복부 팽만, 구토 순이었고 나이가 많을수록 증상이 심하였다. 3) 수술 전에 Meckel 게실로 진단되거나 의심되어 수술 한 경우 5례, 초음파 유도하 수압으로 정복되지 않은 장중첩증(3례)과 장폐색(2례)으로 수술하여 발견된 경우 5례이었다. 4) Meckel 스캔($^{99m}Tc-pertechnetate$)은 cimetidine을 투여한 후 6례에서 시행되었으며, 이소성 위점막이 있었던 5례 중 4례에서 양성, 1례 위음성, 이소성 위점막이 없었던 1례에서 음성이었다. 5) Meckel 게실은 회맹판으로부터 35-70 cm 상부에 있었고, 길이는 4-12 cm이었으며 이중 80%가 5cm 미만이었다. 6) 하부 장출혈이 있었던 5례 모두에서 이소성 위점막이 발견되었고, 그 외의 조직학적 소견은 염증 3례, 궤양 3례, 천공 1례, 출혈 3례, 경색 1례이었다. 결 론 : Meckel 게실은 출혈량이 적거나 증상이 경미한 환자에서 신속히 진단하게 되면 출혈이나 수혈의 빈도를 줄일 수 있으며 회복도 빠르므로, Meckel 게실을 염두에 두고 조영술이나 내시경에 우선하여 Meckel 스캔을 시행하는 것이 좋다. 이소성 위점막이 없는 Meckel 게실에서는 Meckel 스캔이 음성이므로 임상적으로 의심될 때에는 복강경, 컴퓨터 단층촬영, 고해상도 초음파촬영 등의 다양한 진단법이 시도되어야 할 것이다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제72권2호
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• pp.149-155
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• 2012

Background: This study is to evaluate the effect of systemic corticosteroid on the clinical outcomes and the occurrence of complications in mechanical ventilated patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Methods: We retrospectively assessed the clinical outcomes and complications in patients with severe CAP admitted to ICU between March 1, 2003 and July 28, 2009. Outcomes were measured by hospital mortality after ICU admission, duration of mechanical ventilation (MV), ICU, and hospital stay. Complications such as ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP), catheter related-blood stream infection (CR-BSI), and upper gastrointestinal (UGI) bleeding during ICU stay were assessed. Results: Of the 93 patients, 36 patients received corticosteroids over 7 days while 57 patients did not receive corticosteroids. Age, underlying disease, APACHE II, PSI score, and use of vasopressor were not different between two groups. In-hospital mortality was 30.5% in the steroid group and 36.8% in the non-steroid group (p>0.05). The major complications such as VAP, CR-BSI and UGI bleeding was significantly higher in the steroid group than in the non-steroid group (19.4% vs. 7%, p<0.05). The use of steroids and the duration of ICU stay were significantly associated with the development of major complications during ones ICU stay (p<0.05). Conclusion: Systemic corticosteroid in patients with severe CAP requiring mechanical ventilation may have no beneficial effect on clinical outcomes like duration of ICU stay and in-hospital mortality but may contribute to the development of ICU acquired complications.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2013

Purpose: Meckel's diverticulum (MD) has various clinical manifestations, and diagnosis or selectection of proper diagnostic tools is not easy. This study was conducted in order to assess the clinical differences of MD diagnosed by scintigraphic and non-scintigraphic methods and to find the proper diagnostic tools. Methods: We conducted a retrospective review ofthe clinical, surgical, radiologic, and pathologic findings of 34 children with symptomatic MD, who were admitted to Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Inha University Hospital, and The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital between January 2000 and December 2012. The patients were evaluated according to scintigraphic (12 cases; group 1) and non-scintigraphic (22 cases; group 2) diagnosis. Results: The male to female ratio was 7.5: 1. The most frequent chief complaint was lower gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding in group 1 and nonspecific abdominal pain in group 2, respectively. The most frequent pre-operative diagnosis was MD in both groups. Red blood cell (RBC) index was significantly lower in group 1. MD was located at 7 cm to 85 cm from the ileocecal valve. Four patients in group 1 had ectopic gastric tissues causing lower GI bleeding. The most frequent treatment modality was diverticulectomy in group 1 and ileal resection in group 2, respectively. Conclusion: To diagnose MD might be delayed unless proper diagnostic tools are considered. It is important to understand indications of scintigraphic and non-scintigraphic methods according to clinical and hematologic features of MD. Scintigraphy would be weighed in patients with anemia as well as GI symptoms.