A 24-year-old man with asthma and bouts of epigastric pain, nausea, and vomiting

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A 24-year-old man was diagnosed with eosinophilic gastritis. Eosinophilic gastritis is inflammation of the stomach involving the infiltration of eosinophils, a type of white blood cell. The patient was admitted to the hospital with nausea and stomach pain after undergoing treatment for a hernia. He had been treated for asthma with corticosteroid drugs since childhood and ha experienced occasional difficulty in swallowing and nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain after meals for a number of years. Examination of the patient's gastrointestinal tract did not reveal any abnormalities. A tissue biopsy from his gastrointestinal tract, however, showed that he had allergic eosinophilic gastritis that may have been caused by food allergies. He was treated with prednisone for two weeks, and maintained on oral cromolyn sodium. His symptoms subsided and he gained weight.

Allergy, Eosinophil disorders, Gastritis

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Multisystem failure in a 33-year-old man after bone marrow transplantation

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A 33-year-old man with a history of kidney disease and leukemia was admitted to a hospital for a bone marrow transplant. Twenty-one days after the transplant, he developed a widespread rash and evidence of ascites. Ascites is an accumulation of fluid in the abdomen that often occurs during liver failure. The ascites persisted and he subsequently developed respiratory failure as well as kidney failure. He died and an autopsy revealed that he had developed veno-occlusive liver disease, probably from the chemotherapy and radiation he received for his leukemia.

Complications and side effects, Liver failure, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation, Graft versus host reaction, Graft vs. host disease

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A newborn girl with seizures and persistent hypoglycemia

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A two-day-old baby with persistent hypoglycemia despite treatment was diagnosed with diffuse islet-cell hyperplasia. Islet cells are the pancreatic cells that produce insulin, and hyperplasia means there were more cells than normal. This would cause excess production of insulin, which would cause hypoglycemia.

Causes of, Pancreatic diseases, Hypoglycemia

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