By means of radioimmunoassay, the mucosal substance P (SP) and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) concentration in distal ileum, transverse colon and sigmoid colon in 30 patients of chronic diarrhea with splenic weakness was determined and compared with that in 28 patients of chronic diarrhea
A 51-year-old woman complaining of weakness in the limbs was diagnosed as having a duodenal gastrinoma on performing a further evaluation. Surgical resection was performed with selective arterial calcium injection for localization. During preoperative hospitalization, she experienced recurrent
A 54-year-old male Thai patient from Prachin Buri Province presented with a history of chronic watery diarrhea for many years. He passed stool five to ten times per day with occasionally colicky pain, abdominal distension, nausea and vomiting. He had visited hospitals and private clinics and
We reported a 28-year-old woman who had Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Eight days after fever up and abdominal pain, she had weakness and dysesthesia of both hands and feet. Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni) was isolated from her stool culture without diarrhea. IgG anti-GM1 antibody was detected in
When first described in 1946, bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) was characterized as an acute transmissible disease associated with severe leucopenia, high fever, depression, diarrhea, gastrointestinal erosions, and hemorrhages. Recently the severe acute form has been related only to some hypervirulent
Developing countries are burdened with Shigella diarrhea. Understanding mucosal immune responses associated with natural Shigella infection is important to identify potential correlates of protection and, as such, to design effective vaccines. We performed a comparative analysis of circulating
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