Gastroenterology
Association between eupatilin and reduction in small bowel bleeding in aspirin users and aspirin plus acid suppressant users
Hyun Seok Lee, Ji Hyung Nam, Dong Jun Oh, Hyun Jung Ahn, Yun Jeong Lim
Korean J Intern Med. 2023;38(4):484-492. Published online May 19, 2023
Background/Aims: Capsule endoscopy (CE) has shown that low-dose aspirin occasionally causes small bowel (SB) bleeding. We herein evaluated the protective effects of mucoprotective agents (MPAs) on SB bleeding in aspirin users using the nationwide database of claims data from the National Health Insu..
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Changes in performance of small bowel capsule endoscopy based on nationwide data from a Korean Capsule Endoscopy Registry
Su Hwan Kim, Yun Jeong Lim, Junseok Park, Ki-Nam Shim, Dong-Hoon Yang, Jaeyoung Chun, Jin Su Kim, Hyun Seok Lee, Hoon Jai Chun; Research Group for Capsule Endoscopy/Small Bowel Endoscopy
Korean J Intern Med. 2020;35(4):889-896. Published online December 30, 2019
Background/Aims: Capsule endoscopy (CE) is widely used for the diagnosis of small bowel diseases. The clinical performance and complications of small bowel CE, including completion rate, capsule retention rate, and indications, have been previously described in Korea. This study aimed at estimating ..
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Recent trends in diagnostic techniques for inflammatory bowel disease
Makoto Naganuma, Naoki Hosoe, Takanori Kanai, Haruhiko Ogata
Korean J Intern Med. 2015;30(3):271-278. Published online April 29, 2015
Although ileocolonoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease and is useful for assessing the disease severity in the colon and terminal ileum, several alternative diagnostic techniques have been developed recently. For ulcerative colitis (UC), magnification colonoscopy, ..
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A Case of Pulmonary Cryptococcosis by Capsule-deficient Cryptococcus neoformans
Won Seok Cheon, Kwang-Seok Eom, Byoung Kwan Yoo, Seung Hun Jang, Joon-Woo Bahn, Dong-Gyu Kim, Ki-Suck Jung
Korean J Intern Med. 2006;21(1):83-87. Published online March 30, 2006
Pulmonary infection by capsule-deficient Cryptococcus neoformans (CDCN) is a very rare form of pneumonia and it is seldom seen in the immunocompetent host. The authors experienced a case of pulmonary cryptococcosis by CDCN in 25-year-old woman who was without any significant unde..
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Visualization of Jejunal Bleeding by Capsule Endoscopy in a Case of Eosinophilic Enteritis
Nayoung Kim, Jin-Wook Kim, Jin-Hyeok Hwang, Dong Ho Lee, Hye Seung Lee, Kyoung Ho Lee, Sung-Won Kim
Korean J Intern Med. 2005;20(1):63-67. Published online March 31, 2005
Eosinophilic enteritis is a rare disease characterized by tissue eosinophilia, which can affect different layers of bowel wall. Normally, the disease presents as colicky abdominal pain, and rarely as an acute intestinal obstruction or perforation. In this paper, we report a case of eosinophilic e..
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