s u m m a r y A 66-year-old woman visited the emergency department because of sudden onset of nausea, vomiting, and left hemi-abdominal pain that progressed to the upper hemi-abdomen 2 hours prior to her visit. A physical examination performed on admission revealed gradually exacerbating abdominal pain. Radiologic studies revealed a sac-like dilatation of the proximal jejunum with bezoar impaction in the left paraduodenal fossa. Emergent laparotomy was performed under the impression of left paraduodenal hernia, and an incarcerated jejunum with perforation was found in the left paraduodenal fossa. Paraduodenal hernia is a relatively rare cause of acute abdomen, and its diagnosis is often incorrect or delayed owing to its variable clinical manifestations. Therefore, it is important for clinicians to recognize this condition, diagnose it early, and avoid its misdiagnosis, owing to its high overall mortality rate.
Brain metastasis is a commonly encountered clinical problem amongst patients diagnosed with cancers of the breast, lung, colorectum and melanoma, but there are currently no clinical parameters that can predict this outcome. Identifying prognostic indicators may allow for prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) of patients with these cancers, which may reduce the incidence of brain metastasis and improve median survival rates. Altered gene expression patterns of transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) have been implicated in various cancers including breast cancer formation and clear cell renal cell carcinoma metastasis. We postulated that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within TCF7L2 (rs4506565 and rs7901695) and interleukin-6, IL-6 (rs1800795) increase the risk of developing brain metastases from these 4 primary cancers. Materials/Methods: Patients from de-identified electronic medical records (EMR) databases at 2 institutions were assigned to either cases (patients with brain metastasis) or controls (no metastasis) using ICD-9 and tumor registry code-based algorithms. To verify the algorithm integrity, we thoroughly reviewed primary diagnoses with dates and brain metastasis status with dates for all cases. We matched cases 1:1 with controls based on primary cancer, age (AE 10 years), and time until metastasis (AE 3 months), and pulled DNA samples for genotyping. Univariable conditional logistic regression models were fit to analyze association between each SNP and case or control status. Results: Our algorithms identified 1,512 cases and 6,387 controls from 250,219 subjects in both databases. We confirmed 1,044 algorithmassigned cases to be correct, reassigned 26 cases as no-metastasis controls, 52 cases as those with non-brain metastasis and 390 cases as invalid for lacking the primary cancers of interest. Among breast cancer subjects from one institution, we analyzed 174 cases with any-organ metastasis and 174 matched controls, and observed that rs7901695 and rs4506565 SNPs were not associated with any-organ metastasis (p Z 0.37 and 0.68, respectively). However, in a subset of 69 cases and 69 matched controls with non-missing rs1800795 SNP, rs1800795 was associated with anyorgan metastasis (pZ0.003): patients with "GC" had an odds 2.40 times greater than patients with "CC" (95% CI 0.75-7.64) and patients with "GG" had an odds 6.84 times higher than those with "CC" (95% CI 1.82-25.68). Conclusion: Careful manual review of algorithm-based patient assignments in EMR databases is essential for high quality data. A "GG" SNP at rs1800795 of TCF7L2 may indicate an increased risk of any-organ metastasis in breast cancer patients. We are currently verifying the controls to expand this analysis to primary lung, colorectal and melanoma cancers and test brain metastasis specifically.
A 72-year-old man lived independently in a nursing home for >10 years because of a stroke leading to a bed-ridden state. Because of blood-stained and coffee-ground coloured vomitus, he was referred to the gastroenterology service at our institution for further evaluation. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed fresh blood in the lower part of the oesophagus; he was diagnosed with a bleeding ulcer and Mallory-Weiss tear. However, epigastric and low abdominal pain simultaneously persisted. He developed severe sepsis and peritonitis in 1 day. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) revealed urinary bladder rupture with massive ascites (Fig. 1A transaxial view and Fig. 1B sagittal view). A laparotomy and surgical repair of the ruptured bladder was performed on the same day after the CT. Perforation of the augmented bladder, without a history of preceding trauma, is a rare but life-threatening complication (mortality rate, 23-25%) 1 . Diagnosis can be difficult, particularly in paralytic patients with inapparent symptoms and signs. References 1. Elder JS, Snyder HM, Hulbert WC, et al. Perforation of the augmented bladder in patients undergoing clean intermittent catheterization.
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