Granular cell tumor occurring in the sigmoid colon treated by endoscopic mucosal resection using a transparent cap (EMR-C).

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vedolizumab is a gut-selective humanized antibody that binds the α4β7 integrin. We evaluated efficacy and safety of vedolizumab in Japanese patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease (CD). METHODS:In this Phase 3, double-blind study (NCT02038920), 157 patients were randomized to receive intravenous ve...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Watanabe K,Motoya S,Ogata H,Kanai T,Matsui T,Suzuki Y,Shikamura M,Sugiura K,Oda K,Hori T,Araki T,Watanabe M,Hibi T

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to clarify what differences the last 25 years have made in surgical results for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We examined results for 716 hepatectomized patients in four treatment eras: first era (1973-1980; n = 58), second era (1981-1985; n = 155), third era (1986-1990; n = 243...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yamanaka N,Takata M,Tanaka T,Yamanaka J,Yasui C,Ando T,Kuroda N,Maeda S,Okamoto E

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For patients with chronic hepatitis due to hepatitis B virus (HBV), factors predicting hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) other than high levels of HBV-DNA and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) are needed to prevent HCC development, as many patients with chronic HBV infection fulfill these conditions. The purpose o...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Shoji B,Ikeda F,Fujioka S,Kobashi H,Yasunaka T,Miyake Y,Shiraha H,Takaki A,Nouso K,Iwasaki Y,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A new capsule endoscope has been developed by Olympus Medical Systems. The visualization and usefulness of its real-time image viewer for gastric transit abnormality were evaluated by using this new device. METHODS:Thirty-seven consecutive patients were enrolled. In cases of gastric transit abnormality (gas...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ogata H,Kumai K,Imaeda H,Aiura K,Hisamatsu T,Okamoto S,Iwao Y,Sugino Y,Kitajima M,Hibi T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 55-year-old woman was treated at our hospital for multiple sclerosis. Therapy consisted of glucocorticosteroids and cyclosporin. In the 7th week after these drugs were discontinued the patient developed acute liver failure due to fulminant hepatitis (FH) and died. Post-mortem examination showed massive liver necrosi...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Funaoka M,Kato K,Komatsu M,Ono T,Hoshino T,Kato J,Kuramitsu T,Ishii T,Toyoshima I,Masamune O

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peristaltic reflex does not fully explain the polarity of peristalsis. In the distal colon, we propose that the balance of circular muscle contraction proximal and distal to the pellet is a local reflex that predicts polarity of peristalsis. METHODS:Guinea pig distal colon segments were harvested, and fecal...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Gribovskaja-Rupp I,Kwak JM,Takahashi T,Ludwig K

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) [carcinoids, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs)] are becoming an increasing clinical problem because not only are they increasing in frequency, but they can frequently present with advanced disease that requires diagnostic and treatment approaches different from those used in the neo...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ito T,Igarashi H,Jensen RT

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This hospital-based analysis was conducted to identify prognostic factors of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a hepatitis B virus endemic area. METHODS:A total of 6381 HCC cases, diagnosed from 1986 to 2002, were enrolled, and 2890 (42.3%) of them were not treated. Survival rates were analyzed by correlati...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Changchien CS,Chen CL,Yen YH,Wang JH,Hu TH,Lee CM,Wang CC,Cheng YF,Huang YJ,Lin CY,Lu SN

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We encountered a patient with a ciliated hepatic foregut cyst with accompanying liver cirrhosis, which was hard to distinguish from well-differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma. A lesion 2 cm in diameter was found in the subcapsular region of the medial segment of the liver. It was slightly hypoechoic on ultrasonograp...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Murakami T,Imai A,Nakamura H,Tsuda K,Kanai T,Wakasa K

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) has been shown to affect the progression of various inflammatory disorders, including pancreatitis. To investigate the role of MCP-1 in acute pancreatitis and to seek possible therapeutic means, we evaluated the effect of a plasmid expression vector containing a dom...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ishibashi T,Zhao H,Kawabe K,Oono T,Egashira K,Suzuki K,Nawata H,Takayanagi R,Ito T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical significance of the measurement of c-erbB-2 oncogene product was evaluated. The subjects consisted of 404 patients, including 248 with cancer of the digestive organs and 128 with benign digestive diseases. Serum c-erbB-2 protein levels were measured by sandwich immunoenzyme assay. The positive rates of c-...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Motoo Y,Sawabu N,Yamaguchi Y,Mouri I,Yamakawa O,Watanabe H,Ohta H,Okai T,Makino H

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 74-year-old man with triple synchronous cancers occurring in the gallbladder, common bile duct, and pancreas. The patient had consulted a nearby physician because of epigastralgia and icterus. On September 30, 1997, the patient was admitted to our department for further evaluation and treatment. Abdominal ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Sato K,Maekawa T,Yabuki K,Tamasaki Y,Maekawa H,Kudo K,Sengoku H,Kawa I,Wada R,Matsumoto M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In acute pancreatitis, pancreatic phospholipase A(2) (PLA2) in the circulating blood hydrolyzes phospholipids contained in plasma lipoproteins, liberating eicosanoid precursors that are subsequently converted to various eicosanoids. The pathophysiological significance of eicosanoid synthesis via this pathway...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Motoyoshi M,Sugiyama M,Atomi Y,Kimura W,Nagawa H

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is considered to be a pancreatic lesion of IgG4-related systemic disease, but about 20% of AIP patients do not have elevated serum IgG4 levels. This study aimed to clarify the pathophysiology of AIP patients without elevated serum IgG4 levels. METHODS:Fifty-eight AIP patients w...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kamisawa T,Takuma K,Tabata T,Inaba Y,Egawa N,Tsuruta K,Hishima T,Sasaki T,Itoi T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the diagnostic utility of blood biochemical parameters in assessing degree of hepatic fibrosis, serum levels of aminoterminal type III procollagen peptide (P III P), type IV collagen (IV-collagen), 7S domain of type IV collagen (7S-collagen), and hyaluronan (HA) were measured in 54 patients with chronic vi...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Takamatsu S,Nakabayashi H,Okamoto Y,Nakano H

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) exhibit overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and imbalance of colonic microflora. We previously developed a novel redox nanoparticle (RNP(O)), which effectively scavenged ROS in the inflamed mucosa of mice with dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced colitis afte...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Vong LB,Yoshitomi T,Morikawa K,Saito S,Matsui H,Nagasaki Y

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary sclerosing cholangitis is very rare in Japan. The aim of the present study was to identify the characteristics of such patients in Japan. A questionnaire was sent to the members of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology and responses for 192 cases were analyzed. There was male predominancy (61%), and two pea...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Takikawa H,Manabe T

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft drinks containing dietary fiber are popular in Japan. There seem to be two types, one containing polydextrose and the other, oligosaccharide. These beverages are claimed to be useful for constipation or obesity, but data are scanty. We examined four such fiber-containing beverages [Fibe-mini Otsuka Pharmaceutical...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kondo T,Nakae Y

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured urokinase-type plasminogen activator (u-PA) plasma levels in patients with various chronic liver diseases, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), also measuring these levels in healthy volunteers. Plasma u-PA levels in the group of patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis (mean modified Pugh score of...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Sato S,Higashi T,Ouguchi S,Hino N,Tsuji T

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Mac-2 Binding Protein Glycosylation Isomer (M2BPGi) is a novel fibrosis marker. We examined the ability of M2BPGi to predict liver fibrosis in patients with biliary atresia. METHODS:Sixty-four patients who underwent living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) were included [median age, 1.1 years (rang...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yamada N,Sanada Y,Tashiro M,Hirata Y,Okada N,Ihara Y,Urahashi T,Mizuta K

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of Cruveihier-Baumgarten syndrome associated with portal vein thrombosis that developed, slowly during a 2-year period after endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy. The thrombosis led to the disappearance of the venous hum and the dilated abdominal wall veins characteristic of this syndrome. A 73-year-old ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yamakawa O,Ohta H,Watanabe H,Motoo Y,Okai T,Kadoya M,Matsui O,Sawabu N

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interferon (IFN)-based therapy has been reported to reduce the liver-related mortality rate in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. However, predictors of survival and causes of death, including non-liver-related causes, have not been sufficiently investigated in chronic HCV patients who ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Tada T,Kumada T,Toyoda H,Kiriyama S,Tanikawa M,Hisanaga Y,Kanamori A,Kitabatake S,Yama T,Tanaka J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The T-helper (Th)1 immune reaction is essential for the eradication of hepatitis C virus (HCV) during interferon (IFN) therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis C. Osteopontin is a cytokine crucial for the initiation of the Th1 response. Recently, we identified four single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Naito M,Matsui A,Inao M,Nagoshi S,Nagano M,Ito N,Egashira T,Hashimoto M,Mishiro S,Mochida S,Fujiwara K

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely available and its application with 2-[(18)F] fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose ((18)F-FDG) in oncology has become one of the standard imaging modalities in diagnosing and staging of tumors, and monitoring the therapeutic efficacy in hepatic malignancies. Recently, investigators have...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Tsurusaki M,Okada M,Kuroda H,Matsuki M,Ishii K,Murakami T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used positron emission tomography with 2-deoxy-2-[(18)F]fluoro- d-glucose (FDG-PET) in the diagnosis of two cases of malignant intraductal papillary mucinous tumor (IPMT) of the pancreas. A 56-year-old man and a 72-year-old man, both with tumors in the pancreatic head, were referred to Akita University Medical Cent...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yoshioka M,Sato T,Furuya T,Shibata S,Andoh H,Asanuma Y,Hatazawa J,Koyama K

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We treated a patient with a mechanical ileus resulting from encasement of a loop of the small intestine by the great omentum, caused by abnormal adhesion. Apart from its occurrence postoperatively with laparotomy, strangulation of small intestine into the omentum is very rare, and its occurrence without underlying dis...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kimura H,Earashi M,Konishi K,Tsuneda A,Tazawa K,Inoue T,Maeda K,Yabushita K,Kuroda Y,Tsuji M,Miwa A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little real-world cohort data has been reported for Asians who have received interferon-free regimens with sofosbuvir (SOF) for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. We evaluated the effectiveness and safety in clinical practice of ledipasvir (LDV) plus SOF for Japanese patients infected with HCV genoty...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ogawa E,Furusyo N,Nomura H,Dohmen K,Higashi N,Takahashi K,Kawano A,Azuma K,Satoh T,Nakamuta M,Koyanagi T,Kato M,Shimoda S,Kajiwara E,Hayashi J,Kyushu University Liver Disease Study (KULDS) Group.

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 65-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with the diagnosis of gallbladder tumor. Right extended hepatic lobectomy plus lymph node dissection of the hepatoduodenal ligament and left hepaticojejunostomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction was performed in July, 1993. The gallbladder tumor was histologically proven to...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Suganuma M,Marugami Y,Sakurai Y,Ochiai M,Hasegawa S,Imazu H,Matsubara T,Funabiki T,Kuroda M

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammatory bowel disease affects the quality of a patient's life in many ways, but no validated instrument for measuring disease-specific quality of life in these patients is available in Japan. We developed a Japanese version of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ), together with the author...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Hashimoto H,Green J,Iwao Y,Sakurai T,Hibi T,Fukuhara S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of intravenous infusions of the therapeutically available amino acid solutions Moripron and Morihepamin (Roussel Morishita, Osaka, Japan) on gallbladder contraction and cholecystokinin (CCK) release in healthy male volunteers. Plasma CCK levels were measured by radioimmunoassay, using the an...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Shirohara H,Tabaru A,Otsuki M

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00