The economic impact of irritable bowel syndrome in a managed care setting.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Recently, an increasing interest to nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson disease (PD) has shown. Gastrointestinal dysfunction is a prominent nonmotor manifestation of PD and precedes motor symptoms for several years. Neuropathologic studies show early accumulation of α-synuclein (α-SYN) in Lewy neurites and Lewy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Mrabet S,Ben Ali N,Achouri A,Dabbeche R,Najjar T,Haouet S,Belal S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bleeding caused by ectopic varices is an uncommon but important and life-threatening complication of portal hypertension. Spontaneous external hemorrhage from a recanalized umbilical varix is an extremely rare source of ectopic variceal bleeding. We report on the acute presentation of a patient with a bleeding umbilic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Assis DN,Pollak J,Schilsky ML,Emre S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial signals stimulate development and maintenance of the neonatal immune system. The process begins in utero, with limited exposure to microbes in the intrauterine environment, as well as maternal immune signals priming the developing immune system. After birth and initial colonization, the immune system must be...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Houghteling PD,Walker WA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brunner's gland hamartomas are rare benign duodenal tumors often discovered incidentally during endoscopy or on an upper gastrointestinal series. These tumors arise mainly in the duodenal bulb and can present with gastrointestinal bleeding or symptoms of intestinal obstruction. When symptomatic, surgical or endoscopic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Zangara J,Kushner H,Drachenberg C,Daly B,Flowers J,Fantry G

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A great deal is known about methods to diminish intragastric acid concentration, but far less is known about the ability of the gastroduodenal mucosa to resist injury or accelerate its healing. One group of compounds that plays a key role in the endogenous ability of the mucosa to protect itself against injury and per...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Hollander D,Tarnawski A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary intake and plasma lipids were estimated in 200 patients with gallstones and 98 control subjects from a hospital in Northern India and were matched for age, sex, and social class. The intake of total calories and carbohydrates and the plasma triglyceride values were higher in all gallstone patients as compared ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Tandon RK,Saraya A,Paul S,Kapur BM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sensitivity and specificity of current antihuman tissue transglutaminase (tTG) IgA assays used to detect celiac disease reportedly approach 100%. In addition, the sensitivity of new generation deamidated gliadin peptide (alpha-DGP) antibody assays has also been reported to be similar to the tTG IgA assay...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Naiyer AJ,Hernandez L,Ciaccio EJ,Papadakis K,Manavalan JS,Bhagat G,Green PH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A selection of landmark articles for a given year in any subject risks being somewhat subjective, and subjectivity is best avoided in scientific endeavor. However, the very nature of such a selection process invites judgment. Like most judges, I, too, claim to avoid conscious bias, but no one who has ever graced the b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Kapadia CR

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tormentil extracts (TE) have antioxidative properties and are used as a complementary therapy for chronic inflammatory bowel disease. In individual patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) positive effects have been observed. GOALS:To assess the safety, pharmacology, and clinical effects of different doses of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Huber R,Ditfurth AV,Amann F,Güthlin C,Rostock M,Trittler R,Kümmerer K,Merfort I

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal (GI) disturbances are common during training and competition, especially among endurance athletes. Historically, little attention has been paid to the psychobiological etiology of GI problems in sport. The aim of this review is to: (1) provide a physiological overview of how psychological stress and a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Wilson PB

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:In pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis the air sacs are generally small and the mesentery is rarely involved. We describe a 23-year-old woman with mixed connective tissue disease and known esophageal ulcer who developed hematemesis and abdominal distention. Colonoscopy showed pneumatosis coli. A computed tomography (CT...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Lanspa SJ,Liu MW,Jenkins HJ Jr

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies are nonpathogenic manifestations of immune reactivity, and they may occur in acute and chronic liver diseases. Autoantibodies may be consequences rather than causes of the liver injury, and they should be regarded as diagnostic clues rather than etiologic markers. Conventional autoantibodies used in the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Czaja AJ,Norman GL

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human large intestine harbors a complex microbiota containing many hundreds of different bacterial species. Although structure/function relationships between different components of the microbiota are unclear, this complex multicellular entity plays an important role in maintaining homeostasis in the body. Many of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Macfarlane GT,Macfarlane S

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The standard of care for managing pancreaticobiliary disease in altered Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients is laparoscopy-assisted endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (LA-ERCP), but is limited by cost and adverse events. Recently a minimally invasive, completely endoscopic approach using e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Kedia P,Tarnasky PR,Nieto J,Steele SL,Siddiqui A,Xu MM,Tyberg A,Gaidhane M,Kahaleh M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 50-year-old woman with alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency (PiSZ phenotype) who developed clinical features of malabsorption after vagotomy and pyloroplasty. The intestinal biopsy demonstrated total villous atrophy with hypertrophy of the crypts. After gluten withdrawal, digestive function and the appearance of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Pons Romero F,Casafont F,Rodriguez de Lope C,San Miguel G,Artiñano E,Cagigas J

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue distribution of a previously identified M(r) 40 K epithelial autoantigen in ulcerative colitis was examined in situ in the fetal tissue by immunocytochemical method, using an immunoglobulin M (IgM) monoclonal antibody (7E12H12). Fetal-autopsy tissue from 9 to 19 weeks of development (11-21 gestational weeks...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Das KM,Squillante L,Chitayet D,Kalousek DK

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a Chinese family with hereditary pancreatitis, two members are proven to have chronic pancreatitis. The propositus, a 31-year-old man, had epigastric pain since the age of 18. Multiple calcifications in the region of the pancreas were seen on plain film of the abdomen, ultrasonography, computed tomography, and endo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Lin JT,Wang TH,Chen DS

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Long-term gastric acid suppression has been suggested as a means to prevent complications of reflux esophagitis. We report on the 20-year follow-up of 2,306 patients with at least two endoscopic examinations who were taking no antisecretory medication before baseline endoscopy and whose long-term treatment...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Sontag SJ,Sonnenberg A,Schnell TG,Leya J,Metz A

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigated the relationship between chronic gastric ulcers and the appearance of connexin 32 or connexin 43. Samples were taken endoscopically and the appearance of connexin 32 or connexin 43 was assessed by Western blotting using anticonnexin 32 or anticonnexin 43 antibodies. Normal gastric mucosa ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Mine T,Yusuda H,Kataoka A,Tajima A,Nagasawa J,Takano T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 10 years, Kiron Das and his associates have developed an animal model for the study of a putative Crohn's disease (CD)-specific antigen. Athymic T-cell deficient nu/nu mice inoculated with intestinal and lymph node tissue filtrates from patients with CD sometimes develop lymphomas and/or lymph node plasm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Sachar DB

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mortality from ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is decreasing nationwide, but no report to date examined STEMI mortality among patients with cirrhosis. GOALS:Determine mortality rates and investigate possible disparities in cardiovascular interventions for patients with and without cirrhosis admit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Abougergi MS,Karagozian R,Grace ND,Saltzman JR,Qamar AA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：GOALS:Our primary goal was to evaluate whether anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α trough levels above author-determined thresholds are associated with increased rates of mucosal healing among patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. BACKGROUND:The introduction of anti-TNF agents has considerably advanced ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Barnes EL,Allegretti JR

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosing a potentially life-threatening disease may adversely affect patient quality of life (QOL) independent of biologic effects. It is unknown whether the mere diagnosis of Barrett's esophagus (BE) adversely impacts patients' preferences (health-state utility) sufficiently to impair the cost-effectivene...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Rubenstein JH,Inadomi JM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, I have focused on the issue of the clinical gastroenterologist who refuses to evaluate and endoscope the patient with AIDS. The discussion centers around the legal and ethical properties of such a decision, and the legal doctrine of abandonment. Finally, I have reviewed recent recommendations regarding ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Plumeri PA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is rarely reported in Taiwan. GOALS:To determine the prevalence and risk factors of NAFLD in an adult population of Taiwan. STUDY:The cross-sectional community study examined 3245 adults in a rural village of Taiwan. The diagnostic criteria for NAF...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Chen CH,Huang MH,Yang JC,Nien CK,Yang CC,Yeh YH,Yueh SK

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND GOALS:Neurohormonal factors might play a role in the pathogenesis of functional dyspepsia (FD). However, the role of ghrelin, a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates gastric motility, in FD is not yet clearly defined. The present study was designed to investigate plasma ghrelin levels and their relati...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Takamori K,Mizuta Y,Takeshima F,Akazawa Y,Isomoto H,Ohnita K,Ohba K,Omagari K,Shikuwa S,Kohno S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：GOAL:To determine the effect of the specific carbohydrate diet (SCD) on active inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). BACKGROUND:IBD is a chronic idiopathic inflammatory intestinal disorder associated with fecal dysbiosis. Diet is a potential therapeutic option for IBD based on the hypothesis that changing the fecal dysbio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Suskind DL,Cohen SA,Brittnacher MJ,Wahbeh G,Lee D,Shaffer ML,Braly K,Hayden HS,Klein J,Gold B,Giefer M,Stallworth A,Miller SI

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Moderate sedation has been standard for noninvasive gastrointestinal procedures for decades yet there are limited data on reversal agent use and outcomes associated with need for reversal of sedation. AIM:To determine prevalence and clinical significance of reversal agent use during endoscopies and colonosc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Hung A,Marshall J,Barnett S,Falchuk ZM,Sawhney M,Leffler DA

更新日期：2016-03-01 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