Review article: clinical evidence to support current therapies of irritable bowel syndrome.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease generally has a benign course; however, patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) may progress to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Currently, there is a lack of consensus about optimal NASH treatment. AIM:To assess the efficacy of insulin-sensitizing agents ...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Rakoski MO,Singal AG,Rogers MA,Conjeevaram H

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the fact that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are among the most widely used drugs in medicine today, 2-10% of patients must discontinue their use primarily due to gastrointestinal (GI) side-effects. While the development of non-aspirin NSAIDs (NA-NSAIDs) has significantly reduced GI side-effect...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Butt JH,Barthel JS,Hosokawa MC,Moore RA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transplacental transfer of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) inhibitors has been shown in mothers receiving therapy for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). AIM:To examine reports of adverse events of these medications in pregnancy. METHODS:Individual Safety Reports of adverse events (Jan 2003-June 2012) w...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Deepak P,Stobaugh DJ

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 24-hour intragastric pH of 12 patients with an acute duodenal ulcer was recorded with the aim of comparing the effects of two different times of administration of 300 mg ranitidine: post evening meal, or bedtime. This double-blind crossover trial involved 3 centres. Twenty-four-hour gastric pH was measured under s...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Cortot A,Guillemot F,Moreau J,Soule JC,Veyrac M,Alberola B,Pappo M

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis B (HBV)-infected patients have a higher morbidity and mortality when super-infected by hepatitis A (HAV). AIM:To evaluate the immunogenicity and safety of a commercial inactivated HAV vaccine in Chinese patients with chronic HBV infection. METHODS:Sixty-five HBV-infected patients (30 carriers, 22...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Tsang SW,Sung JJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Strong suppression of viral replication and normalization of alanine aminotransferase is feasible with nucleos(t)ide analogues. It is estimated viral replication and liver inflammation can be controlled in 90% of patients with chronic hepatitis B with the current available treatments. AIM:To review the stud...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Leemans WF,Ter Borg MJ,de Man RA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-term cure is now possible in more than 30% of selected patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome who undergo gastrinoma resection. The need, however, for continued gastric acid antisecretory therapy in these patients remains controversial. The current study was designed to determine whether post-operative antise...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Metz DC,Benya RV,Fishbeyn VA,Pisegna JR,Orbuch M,Strader DB,Norton JA,Jensen RT

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopic procedures generate bacteraemia to different degrees. Under certain conditions, most notably valvular heart disease, clinically significant infections may occur. A large body of literature has grown around recommendations for antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent procedure-related infections. Most of this liter...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Schembre D,Bjorkman DJ

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional dyspepsia is highly variable in its clinical presentation and multifactorial in its underlying causes. Since many of the symptoms included in the definition of dyspepsia are intuitively suggestive of different pathogenic mechanisms, it has been proposed that patients with functional dyspepsia be divided int...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Stanghellini V

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the effects of fasting and feeding on the antisecretory actions of ranitidine in 19 patients whose duodenal ulcers remained unhealed or relapsed despite treatment with the drug. Nine of the patients received, and continued with, 150 mg ranitidine b.d. and 10 took 300 mg ranitidine b.d. In all patients, gas...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Johnston DA,Wormsley KG

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colorectal cancer is the second commonest cause of cancer mortality. Some countries are implementing colorectal cancer screening to detect lesions at an early stage using non-invasive tools like the faecal immunochemical test. Despite affordability, this test shows a low sensitivity for precancerous lesions ...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Malagón M,Ramió-Pujol S,Serrano M,Serra-Pagès M,Amoedo J,Oliver L,Bahí A,Mas-de-Xaxars T,Torrealba L,Gilabert P,Miquel-Cusachs JO,García-Nimo L,Saló J,Guardiola J,Piñol V,Cubiella J,Castells A,Aldeguer X,Garcia-Gil J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The approval of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor sorafenib in 2007 marked a milestone in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma, as sorafenib was the first systemic therapy to show a survival benefit in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. Since then many drugs failed in the first- and second-lin...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Pinter M,Peck-Radosavljevic M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Triple therapy (proton pump inhibitor, clarithromycin and amoxicillin or an imidazole) is the first-line treatment for Helicobacter pylori infection. However, the effectiveness of triple therapy is decreasing due to the increase in antibiotic resistance. Quadruple therapy (proton pump inhibitor, tetracycline...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Gené E,Calvet X,Azagra R,Gisbert JP

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Unable to resolve a medical problem, gastroenterologists occasionally choose an ineffectual intervention instead. The elusive path to effectual management becomes substituted with an ineffectual but readily available medical ritual. The term 'ritual' refers to the utilization of an ineffectual intervention w...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Sonnenberg A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The large (n = 18 325) Therapeutic Arthritis Research and Gastrointestinal Event Trial (TARGET) study demonstrated a significant gastrointestinal benefit with lumiracoxib 400 mg o.d. (4x the recommended dose in osteoarthritis) vs. naproxen 500 mg b.d. or ibuprofen 800 mg t.d.s. AIM:To investigate how early ...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Hawkey CJ,Weinstein WM,Stricker K,Murphy V,Richard D,Krammer G,Rebuli R

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at increased risk of osteoporosis. A number of studies have emerged in recent years indicating that tumour necrosis factor (TNF) blockade appears to have a beneficial effect on bone mineral density (BMD) in IBD patients. AIMS:To provide a review of the avai...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Veerappan SG,O'Morain CA,Daly JS,Ryan BM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Different authors have postulated both toxic and protective effects for nitric oxide (NO) in the pathophysiology of active inflammation. AIM:To examine the role of NO, especially that produced by the inducible form of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), by investigating the effects of NOS inhibitors and NO donors...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Yoshida Y,Iwai A,Itoh K,Tanaka M,Kato S,Hokari R,Miyahara T,Koyama H,Miura S,Kobayashi M

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both simple proportions and statistical tests are utilised for symptom-reflux association. We systematically compared three such tests in a clinical setting. AIM:To compare the three commonly used symptom reflux association tests in a large cohort of patients undergoing ambulatory pH monitoring for the eval...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Kushnir VM,Sathyamurthy A,Drapekin J,Gaddam S,Sayuk GS,Gyawali CP

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coeliac disease (CD), originally thought to be largely confined to Northern Europe and Australasia and uncommon in North America and the Middle East, is now recognised to be equally common in all these countries. It is still thought to be rare in the Orient and Sub-Saharan Africa. AIM:To assess geographical...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Kang JY,Kang AH,Green A,Gwee KA,Ho KY

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prebiotics have been shown to reduce abdominal symptoms in patients with functional gut disorders, despite that they are fermented by colonic bacteria and may induce gas-related symptoms. AIM:To investigate changes in the metabolic activity of gut microbiota induced by a recognised prebiotic. METHODS:Healt...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Mego M,Manichanh C,Accarino A,Campos D,Pozuelo M,Varela E,Vulevic J,Tzortzis G,Gibson G,Guarner F,Azpiroz F

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous data have indicated low bone formation as a mechanism of osteoporosis in inflammatory bowel disease. Fluoride can stimulate bone formation. AIM:To assess the effect of fluoride supplementation on lumbar spine bone mineral density in osteoporotic patients with inflammatory bowel disease treated in p...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Abitbol V,Mary JY,Roux C,Soulé JC,Belaiche J,Dupas JL,Gendre JP,Lerebours E,Chaussade S,Groupe D'etudes Thérapeutiques des Affections Inflammatoires Digestives (GETAID).

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Misoprostol is known to be effective in stimulating intestinal transit both in healthy individuals and in patients with chronic constipation when evaluated in short-term trials. The aim of this study was to determine the utility of misoprostol in the long-term management of patients with chronic refractory c...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Roarty TP,Weber F,Soykan I,McCallum RW

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Irritable bowel syndrome is a widespread disorder with a marked socioeconomic burden. Previous studies support the proposal that a subset of patients with features compatible with diarrhoea-predominant IBS (IBS-D) have bile acid malabsorption (BAM). AIM:To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to as...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Slattery SA,Niaz O,Aziz Q,Ford AC,Farmer AD

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of covert hepatic encephalopathy (CHE) by means of portosystemic encephalopathy syndrome (PSE) test is costly and therefore infrequently performed. AIM:To determine the ability of critical flicker frequency (CFF) alone or in combination with laboratory findings, as an initial test to pre-selec...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Greinert R,Ripoll C,Hollenbach M,Zipprich A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score is an effective triage marker following single time point paracetamol (acetaminophen) overdose, but has not been evaluated following staggered (multiple supratherapeutic doses over >8 h, resulting in cumulative dose of >4 g/day) overdoses. AIM:To evaluate...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Craig DG,Zafar S,Reid TW,Martin KG,Davidson JS,Hayes PC,Simpson KJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HCV-TARGET is a longitudinal observational study of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients treated with direct-acting anti-viral agents (DAAs) in a US consortium of 90 academic and community medical centres. AIM:To assess utilisation of response-guided therapy (RGT) and sustained virological response (SVR...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Sterling RK,Kuo A,Rustgi VK,Sulkowski MS,Stewart TG,Fenkel JM,El-Genaidi H,Mah'moud MA,Abraham GM,Stewart PW,Akushevich L,Nelson DR,Fried MW,Di Bisceglie AM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of cholesterol gallstones is now recognized as a multifactorial process, including saturation of bile with cholesterol, destabilization of bile leading to cholesterol crystals and hypomotility permitting crystal growth, and agglomeration and retention of microstones which then grow to macroscopic gall...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Pauletzki J,Paumgartner G

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies on the use of low-dose proton pump inhibitor for the maintenance therapy of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease have shown that it might be comparable with standard-dose proton pump inhibitor treatment and superior to standard-dose histamine-2 receptor antagonist therapy. AIM:To compare the impact of ...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： You JH,Lee AC,Wong SC,Chan FK

更新日期：2003-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter-negative gastritis has been increasingly reported. Molecular techniques as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) may detect bacterial DNA in histologically negative gastritis. AIM:To evaluate of Helicobacter PCR in gastric biopsies for the daily diagnostics of Helicobacter-negative gastritis. ME...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Kiss S,Zsikla V,Frank A,Willi N,Cathomas G

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tegaserod, a 5-hydroxytryptamine-4 receptor agonist, enhances gastric emptying, but its effects on proximal stomach function have not been studied. AIM:To study the effect of tegaserod on gastric compliance, accommodation and perception of distension in humans. METHODS:Nineteen healthy volunteers (10 femal...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Tack J,Vos R,Janssens J,Salter J,Jauffret S,Vandeplassche G

更新日期：2003-11-15 00:00:00