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Adult Onset Hirschsprung's Disease With Overlapping Presentation of Sigmoid Volvulus: Two Case Reports With Literature Review at Tikur Ambessa Specialized Hospital, AAU, Ethiopia. [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT Adult‐onset Hirschsprung's disease (HSD) is uncommon and frequently leads to diagnostic difficulty after infancy. It is a congenital illness that causes intestinal obstruction due to a lack of ganglion cells. Approximately 1 in 5000 live newborns have this illness, and 95% of HSD cases are identified in infants.
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Seminars in Pediatric Surgery, 2010 Hirschsprung's disease (HSCR) is characterized by absence of the enteric nervous system in a variable portion of the distal gut. Affected infants usually present in the days after birth with bowel obstruction. Despite surgical advances, long-term outcomes remain variable.
GarciaBarcelo, M, Tam, PKH, Kenny, SE
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Conditions that mimic Hirschsprung's disease, but that are not Hirschsprung's disease. [PDF]
World J Pediatr SurgHirschsprung’s disease (HSCR) is widely recognized in pediatric surgery. This condition has been elucidated, and therapeutic approaches have been developed. However, even when ganglion cells are present in the rectum, some patients still experience symptoms such as bowel obstruction, intestinal dilatation, and chronic constipation, which are similar to
Onishi S, Ieiri S.
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A rare association of ileal atresia and total colonic Hirschsprung's disease
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2022 Total colonic aganglionosis is the most rare form of Hirschsprung's disease and is defined as the absence of ganglion cells in both myenteric and submucosal plexus extending from the anus to at least the ileocecal valve. Intrauterine intussusceptions, on
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A case of Hirschsprung's disease underwent surgery in adulthood
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2016 Adult Hirschsprung's disease is a rare motor disorder of the gut that is frequently misdiagnosed as refractory constipation. We describe a 30-year-old patient with adult Hirschsprung's disease with a history of chronic constipation requiring daily enema.
Richi Nakatake +7 more
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Galician Medical Journal, 2020 Introduction. Current trends in surgical treatment of Hirschsprung's disease are aimed at minimally invasive interventions. However, the experience of using Soave-Boley procedure in surgical treatment of Hirschsprung's disease in children of different ...
Oleh Kurtash
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JBN (Jurnal Bedah Nasional), 2021 Aim: To determine the validity (sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratio) of barium enema as Hirschsprung's disease diagnostic tool in infants. Methods: This study was a diagnostic test of barium enema compared with postoperative histopathology ...
I Made Darmajaya, I Ketut Subhawa
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Congenital intestinal hypoganglionosis: A radiologic mimic of Hirschsprung's disease
Radiology Case Reports, 2019 Intestinal hypoganglionosis or isolated hypoganglionosis is a rare entity with a clinical and radiologic presentation that can mimic Hirschsprung's disease in the neonatal period.
Gayathri Sreedher, MD +4 more
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African Journal of Paediatric Surgery, 2020 Introduction: Diagnosis of Hirschsprung's disease depends on rectal biopsy. This study was designed to find an alternate diagnostic modality to exclude Hirschsprung's disease.
Nitin Sharma +5 more
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Neuroimmune regulation in Hirschsprung’s disease associated enterocolitis
Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 Neuroimmune pathways are important part of the regulation of inflammatory response. Nerve cells regulate the functions of various immune cells through neurotransmitters, and then participate in the inflammatory immune response. Hirschsprung’s disease (HD)
Haosen Ji, Dengming Lai, Jinfa Tou
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