ArticleDigestive diseases and sciences2003
Biliary tract disease: a rare manifestation of eosinophilic gastroenteritis.
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- Sustained Eosinophilic Cholangitis Due to a Mite Allergy Mimicking Sclerosing Cholangitis.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2022Review
- Eosinophilic Cholecystitis presenting with Common Bile Duct Sludge and Cholangitis: A Case Report.JNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association · 2020Article
- Eosinophilic cholangitis is a potentially underdiagnosed etiology in indeterminate biliary stricture.World journal of gastroenterology · 2017Article
- Hepatomegaly and periportal oedema of the liver in a patient with eosinophilic gastroenteritis.The Malaysian journal of medical sciences : MJMS · 2013Article
- Eosinophilic gastroenteritis: review of a rare and treatable disease of the gastrointestinal tract.Case reports in gastroenterology · 2013Article
- A case of severe acalculous cholecystitis associated with sorafenib treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.World journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2012Article
- Hepatobiliary disease associated with hypereosinophilia: a report of two patients and a review of the literature.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2011Article
- Eosinophilic cholangitis and cholangiopathy: a sheep in wolves clothing.HPB surgery : a world journal of hepatic, pancreatic and biliary surgery · 2010Review
- Eosinophilic gastroenteritis with eosinophilic infiltration of the gall bladder.Clinical journal of gastroenterology · 2008Article
- Eosinophilic cholecystitis along with pericarditis caused by Ascaris lumbricoides: a case report.World journal of gastroenterology · 2007Article
- A case of eosinophilic cholangitis: imaging findings of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography, cholangioscopy, and intraductal ultrasonography.World journal of gastroenterology · 2007Article
- Eosinophilic gastroenteritis and citrus-induced urticaria.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2006Article
- Eosinophilic cholangiopathy--a case report.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2005Review
- Enterobiliary fistula as a complication of eosinophilic gastroenteritis: a case report.Korean journal of radiologyArticle
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Abstract
Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE) is a rare inflammatory disease characterized by diffuse or scattered eosinophilic infiltration of the digestive tract and usually by peripheral blood eosinophilia. The most common presenting symptoms of EGE are abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, but clinical features depend on which layers or location of gastrointestinal tract are involved. Treatment with corticosteroids results in clinical and histological remission in most patients and surgery can be avoided if a correct diagnosis is made. Previous history of allergy is a key to diagnosing EGE, but peripheral eosinophilia may be absent in some patients under concomitant treatment with corticosteroids. Radiological and endoscopic findings are also nonspecific and diagnosis must always be histologically confirmed. The gastrointestinal involvement is patchy in distribution, so more than one panendoscopic examination is often necessary to establish the diagnosis, and surgical or CT-guided full-thickness biopsy is needed in patients with muscular or serosal involvement. It emphasises the importance of a high index of clinical suspicion, which mainly depends on knowledge of natural history of the disease. We report here a case of EGE associated with transmural eosinophilic cholecystocholangitis, in a patient who presented with dyspeptic symptoms and recurrent cholestasis responsive to corticoesteroids. To our knowledge, this patient represents the second case, in the English literature, in which corticoid-responsive cholangitis was associated to histologically proven eosinophilic cholecystitis and gastrointestinal involvement, suggesting that EGE must always be considered in the differential diagnosis of biliary tract disease in patients with eosinophilia and/or atopic diseases.
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