The differential diagnosis of eosinophilic esophagitis.

abstract：:Changes in liver biochemical test results have been described in hyperthyroid patients before and after antithyroid therapy. In the present study, we analyzed liver tests at diagnosis and after 6 weeks of treatment with propylthiouracil (PTU) in 43 patients with hyperthyroidism. At diagnosis, 60.5% of the patients had...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Gürlek A,Cobankara V,Bayraktar M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred forty-six consecutive specimens of excised bowel from patients with Crohn's disease were studied to determine the relationships between strictures, sinuses, and "fissures." A significant coincidence of sinuses and strictures was observed and sinuses tended to arise proximal to the point of maximal strictur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Kelly JK,Siu TO

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：GOALS:We investigated the prognosis of Crohn's disease (CD) in Korean patients with jejunal involvement. BACKGROUND:Although jejunal involvement is considered a poor prognostic factor of CD in whites, it has never been validated in Asian populations. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 1403 Kor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Park SK,Yang SK,Park SH,Park SH,Kim JW,Yang DH,Jung KW,Kim KJ,Ye BD,Byeon JS,Myung SJ,Yu CS,Kim JH

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a young man with persistent elevation of transaminases and indirect bilirubin following acute viral hepatitis. Liver biopsy showed chronic persistent hepatitis, and clinical evaluation was otherwise negative for significant liver disease. The indirect-reacting serum bilirubin rose after both caloric restric...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Caldwell JH,Kirschner SD,Spagna VA,Inloes RL

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 36-year-old male patient, after 3 months' treatment with fluvastatin 40 mg/d for hypercholesterolemia, presented with acute pancreatitis. The pancreatitis was mild, and the patient settled on medical treatment. Other causes of the disease were ruled out. Some months later, the patient reintroduced fluvastatin on his...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Tysk C,Al-Eryani AY,Shawabkeh AA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Management of diverticular disease (DD) remains a point of debate. GOALS:To investigate the current opinion of participants of the 2nd International Symposium on Diverticular Disease, on real-life management of patients with DD of the colon. STUDY:Twelve questions were aimed at the diagnosis, treatment, an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Tursi A,Picchio M,Elisei W,Di Mario F,Scarpignato C,Brandimarte G

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desmoid tumors may occur sporadically or as part of the extraintestinal manifestations of familial adenomatous polyposis. Different phenotypes have been described and some genotype-phenotype correlations have been raised, associated with different sites of germline mutations in the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Benoit L,Faivre L,Cheynel N,Ortega-Deballon P,Facy O,Marty M,Olschwang S,Fraisse J,Cuisenier J

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Practitioners of endoscopy often experience musculoskeletal pain and injury (most often in the back, neck, shoulders, hands, wrists, and thumbs) that are associated with the minute and repetitive strain that is placed on these areas during endoscopic procedures. This review of the current documentation of endoscopy-re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Harvin G

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lansoprazole, a proton pump inhibitor, has been reported to inhibit ethanol-induced injury in rats. However, the mechanism of the protective effect is not known. This study was carried out to investigate the role of prostaglandin (PG) in the protective effect of lansoprazole. Male Wistar rats were given either 30 mg/k...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Fukuda T,Arakawa T,Shimizu Y,Ohtani K,Higuchi K,Kobayashi K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 24-year-old man with addisonian pernicious anemia, adult celiac disease and selective IgA deficiency is presented to emphasize the differential diagnosis of vitamin B12 deficient megaloblastic anemia in association with small intestinal mucosal abnormalities and the relationships between immunoglobulin deficiency, p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Quigley EM,Carmichael HA,Watkinson G

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 41-year-old man, who in 1969 had Crohn's disease and extensive hepatic and renal amyloidosis, has done well for 19 years after intestinal resection, with regression of massive proteinuria and maintenance of normal renal and hepatic function tests, although renal amyloidosis persists. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Mandelstam P,Simmons DE,Mitchell B

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy is the most sensitive diagnostic test in patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms. Endoscopy performed by trained examiners, however, still misses lesions. Single-contrast upper gastrointestinal x-ray adds little new information to a complete endoscopic examination by a trained en...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Tedesco FJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-year-old boy presented with sexual precocity secondary to a hormone-producing hepatoblastoma. The tumor demonstrated an aggressive histologic pattern and stained immunohistochemically for alpha-fetoprotein and beta-subunit human chorionic gonadotrophin. After a successful liver transplant these tumor markers were ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Heimann A,White PF,Riely CA,Ritchey AK,Flye MW,Barwick KW

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:We investigated changes in hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) level and its correlation with clinical outcomes in treatment-naive chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients undergoing entecavir therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Among 51 hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-positive treatment-naive CHB patients receiving ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Jung YK,Kim JH,Lee YS,Lee HJ,Yoon E,Jung ES,Hong SK,Joo MK,Yeon JE,Park JJ,Kim JS,Bak YT,Byun KS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：GOAL:The goal of this study was to assess the relationship between pretransplant measures of reflux and longer-term outcomes of chronic allograft rejection in lung transplant recipients. BACKGROUND:Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) is a primary measure of morbidity and mortality following lung transplantation, a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Lo WK,Moniodis A,Goldberg HJ,Feldman N,Chan WW

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 37-year-old man had fever, weight loss, malaise, right upper quadrant pain, lymphadenopathy, and a twofold elevation of serum alkaline phosphatase, transaminases, and gamma glutamyl transpeptidase. Granulomas were found on liver biopsy after 2 1/2 months of illness. Treatment with isoniazid and rifampin for 2 months...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Biest S,Schubert TT

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lansoprazole is the first proton pump inhibitor developed in Japan. We studied the clinical efficacy of lansoprazole 30 mg q.d. on peptic ulcers and the subsequent relapse rates. The endoscopic healing rate of gastric ulcers (n = 86) after 8 weeks of treatment and duodenal ulcers (n = 52) after 6 weeks of treatment we...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Ohashi T,Sakata J,Haraguchi Y,Eto T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：GOALS AND BACKGROUND:Fundoplication is increasingly used for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Few studies have tracked patient outcomes of the Toupet method for more than 1 year. Further clinical, physiologic, and patient-based outcome measures have not been well characterized for this method. T...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Klapow JC,Wilcox CM,Mallinger AP,Marks R,Heudebert GR,Centor RM,Lawrence W,Richter J

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：GOAL:The purpose of this study was to characterize outcomes of esophagorespiratory fistulas (ERF) by etiology and initial treatment strategy. BACKGROUND:ERF is a morbid condition for which optimal treatment strategies and outcomes are still in evolution. STUDY:Medical records and images were reviewed for all patients...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Lenz CJ,Bick BL,Katzka D,Nichols FC,Depew ZS,Wong Kee Song LM,Baron TH,Buttar NS,Maldonado F,Enders FT,Harmsen WS,Dierkhising RA,Topazian MD

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ascites due to cirrhosis may be difficult to distinguish from ascites due to heart failure by clinical features alone. More invasive testing is usually necessary, such as measurement of the hepatic venous pressure gradient, or paracentesis with measurement of the ascitic fluid total protein. AIM:The aim of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Sheer TA,Joo E,Runyon BA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased amounts of small bowel gas are a frequent finding on plain abdominal films in toxic megacolon (TMC), but they may also be found in patients with severe colitis. We studied 69 consecutive patients with severe ulcerative colitis to evaluate whether an increased gas content of the small intestine may identify p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Caprilli R,Vernia P,Latella G,Torsoli A

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is prevalent in Latinos. There is some evidence that progression to cirrhosis is more rapid. END POINTS:To calculate time of cirrhosis from time of HCV infection in a large Latino population. Other end points were to assess variables that predict cirrhosis and the effect of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Rodríguez-Torres M,Ríos-Bedoya CF,Rodríguez-Orengo J,Fernández-Carbia A,Marxuach-Cuétara AM,López-Torres A,Salgado-Mercado R,Bräu N

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although our current understanding is limited, epidemiologic investigation of Crohn's disease holds great promise. Certain aspects of the epidemiology are clear. The incidence of Crohn's disease, which has increased over the past few decades, may have reached a plateau. The disease has its peak onset in early life, wi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Sandler RS,Golden AL

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There was some ambiguity in the recent guidelines on the use of capsule endoscopy (CE) in cases of iron deficiency anemia (IDA). GOAL:We aimed to examine the yield of CE in diagnosing the cause of IDA and to define clinical parameters that predict higher diagnostic yields. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A total of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Stone J,Grover K,Bernstein CN

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granular cell myoblastoma, a rare, but generally benign tumor, is being encountered with increasing frequency in the digestive tract. Seventy-two cases have been described in the esophagus; we report two additional cases. A follow-up, available in 13 patients (including ours), reveals a low likelihood of malignant tra...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Subramanyam K,Shannon CR,Patterson M,Davis M,Gourley WK

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antacids have been used as remedies for benign gastroduodenal disorders for centuries. They were regarded to be effective in relieving gastric pain and symptoms of hyperacidity and in promoting ulcer healing. The effectiveness was based on empiric observations and was not derived from the controlled clinical trials da...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Sewing KF

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Voice-related complaints are the most common extraesophageal manifestation of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). The aim of this study was to compare objectively measured voice parameters in normal subjects and patients with GERD and to assess the impact of antireflux surgery on these parameters...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Ayazi S,Pearson J,Hashemi M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared eleven patients in whom symptoms of Crohn's disease appeared at age greater than or equal to 65 with a younger group in whom symptoms had appeared earlier. Only 64% of the older patients were initially recognized as having Crohn's disease, as compared with 96% of the younger patients even though clinical c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Stalnikowicz R,Eliakim R,Diab R,Rachmilewitz D

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We documented the natural history of esophageal carcinoma and its rapid growth by measuring the change in tumor diameter radiographically in 10 patients during an observation period because the diagnosis had been missed. Nine men and one woman (age range, 48-74 years; mean, 60 years) were included in the study. Eight ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Haruma K,Tokutomi T,Yoshihara M,Sumii K,Kajiyama G

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The single technological advancement that Bravo pH monitoring offers over conventional pH monitoring is the elimination of the transnasal catheter. This was not a trivial advance in terms of technologic achievement. Development of a delivery system that could temporarily place a wireless capsule on the esophageal muco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Pandolfino JE,Kwiatek MA

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00