Interferon therapy for aged patients with chronic hepatitis C: improved survival in patients exhibiting a biochemical response.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Recently, guidelines for the treatment and prevention of ulcers induced by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) were established. This study investigated the association between the current adherence to the guidelines and the incidence of gastric mucosal lesions caused by NSAIDs. METHODS:This study...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Tsumura H,Fujita T,Tamura I,Morita Y,Yoshida M,Toyonaga T,Mukai H,Inokuchi H,Kutsumi H,Azuma T

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of pancreas head carcinoma associated with fat replacement of the body and tail. A 68-year-old man presented with obstructive jaundice and was admitted to our hospital. Ultrasonography and computed tomography showed pancreas head tumor with a neighboring cystic lesion and fatty replacement of parenchy...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Toyama N,Kamiyama H,Suminaga Y,Namai K,Ota M,Konishi F

更新日期：2004-01-01 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:An optimal surveillance program is important to prevent advanced colorectal neoplasm. In this context, we have evaluated the cumulative risk of high-risk adenoma (HRA) or colorectal cancer (CRC) according to surveillance interval time after polypectomy. In addition, we assessed risk factors for late surveill...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Tae CH,Moon CM,Kim SE,Jung SA,Eun CS,Park JJ,Seo GS,Cha JM,Park SC,Chun J,Lee HJ,Jung Y,Kim JO,Joo YE,Park DI

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CYFRA 21-1 is a fragment of cytokeratin 19 (CK 19). Four patients with large intrahepatic (or peripheral) cholangiocarcinoma (CC) and high serum levels of CYFRA 21-1 (normal, < or = 2 ng/ml) are reported. CYFRA 21-1 levels exceeded 9 ng/ml in all 4 patients. Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), was high in 1 (CEA; normal r...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kashihara T,Ohki A,Kobayashi T,Sato T,Nishizawa H,Ogawa K,Tako H,Kawakami F,Tsuji M,Tamaoka K

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to develop a model to predict the development of severe anemia during pegylated interferon alpha-2b plus ribavirin combination therapy. METHODS:Data were collected from 1081 genotype 1b chronic hepatitis C patients who were treated at 6 hospitals in Japan. These patients were randomly assig...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Hiramatsu N,Kurosaki M,Sakamoto N,Iwasaki M,Sakamoto M,Suzuki Y,Sugauchi F,Tamori A,Kakinnuma S,Matsuura K,Izumi N

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Loss of imprinting (LOI) of the insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) is an early event in the development of colorectal cancer (CRC). Whether LOI of IGF2 denotes a molecular or clinical cancer subgroup is currently unknown. METHODS:Tumor biopsies and paired normal mucosa from 399 patients with extensive clin...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Belharazem D,Magdeburg J,Berton AK,Beissbarth L,Sauer C,Sticht C,Marx A,Hofheinz R,Post S,Kienle P,Ströbel P

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk for lymph node metastasis and the prognostic significance of pedunculated-type T1 colorectal carcinomas (CRCs) require further study. We aimed to assess the validity of the 2014 Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum (JSCCR) guidelines based on long-term outcomes of pedunculated-type T1...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Asayama N,Oka S,Tanaka S,Nagata S,Furudoi A,Kuwai T,Onogawa S,Tamura T,Kanao H,Hiraga Y,Okanobu H,Kuwabara T,Kunihiro M,Mukai S,Goto E,Shimamoto F,Chayama K

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alcohol-related diseases have multiple and varied associations with acetaldehyde, a highly toxic product of ethanol oxidation that accumulates in the absence of active aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH). This study was designed to clarify the role of acetaldehyde in liver injury, specifically in vivo and in vitro...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Nakamura Y,Yokoyama H,Higuchi S,Hara S,Kato S,Ishii H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although polycystic liver disease (PLD) is known to be associated with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, a finding of PLD with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is extremely rare. We have experienced one such case of a ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas in a patient with Potter type III cystic disease of...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Sakurai Y,Shoji M,Matsubara T,Ochiai M,Funabiki T,Urano M,Mizoguchi Y,Fuwa N

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nocturnal administration of branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) granules improves serum albumin levels in patients with cirrhosis. However, it is unclear whether or not this administration method can improve the patients' quality of life (QOL). In this study, we aimed to investigate the efficacy of BCAA granule...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Hidaka H,Nakazawa T,Kutsukake S,Yamazaki Y,Aoki I,Nakano S,Asaba N,Minamino T,Takada J,Tanaka Y,Okuwaki Y,Watanabe M,Shibuya A,Koizumi W

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is suggested that nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), including nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), can be associated with insomnia and gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD). The relationship between GERD and insomnia in subjects with biopsy-proven NAFLD was in...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Taketani H,Sumida Y,Tanaka S,Imajo K,Yoneda M,Hyogo H,Ono M,Fujii H,Eguchi Y,Kanemasa K,Chayama K,Itoh Y,Yoshikawa T,Saibara T,Fujimoto K,Nakajima A,Japan Study Group of NAFLD.

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the original publication of the article, the following errors were noted and corrected in this correction. ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Koterazawa Y,Koyanagi-Aoi M,Uehara K,Kakeji Y,Aoi T

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The apelin receptor (APJ) is related to angiotensin-like-receptor 1 (AGTRL1). This study was designed to elucidate the in vivo localization and changes of APJ in cirrhotic liver, and the in vitro changes of APJ expression in cultured hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) and capillarized sinusoidal endothelial cells...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yokomori H,Oda M,Yoshimura K,Machida S,Kaneko F,Hibi T

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo progression to malignancy is characterized by the switch to an angiogenic phenotype. The angiogenic switch is a critical control point for tumor expansion. The ability of a tumor to become neovascularized permits rapid expansion of tumor growth and increases the likelihood of metastases. The genetic alteration...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Tanaka S,Sugimachi K,Yamashita Y,Shirabe K,Shimada M,Wands JR,Sugimachi K

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is responsible for more than a half of the cases of chronic viral hepatitis in Japan. About 20% of patients who are chronically infected with the virus develop cirrhosis about 20-30 years after the infection, with hepatocellular carcinoma developing in about 5% of patients a year. The...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Chayama K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and resultant colitis occurring prior to puberty are frequently associated with delayed puberty and losses of growth and bone mineralization. Some of this delay may be due to colonic inflammation and associated systemic inflammation. To date no treatments for IBD have been sh...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Deboer MD,Steinman J,Li Y

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of gastric neuroendocrine (NE) carcinoma associated with chronic atrophic gastritis type A (CAG/A) or reversed atrophic type gastritis. A 9 x 6 cm tumor was resected from the stomach to control pain in a 55-year-old Japanese woman with peritoneal dissemination and metastatic tumors of the liver and ov...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kaizaki Y,Fujii T,Kawai T,Saito K,Kurihara K,Fukayama M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preoperative biliary drainage (PBD) has been thought to be preferable regardless of the site of biliary strictures, e.g., distal or proximal strictures because PBD by endoscopy or interventional radiology decreases postoperative mortality and morbidity rates. However, recently, several studies have revealed that PBD s...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Umeda J,Itoi T

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:We assessed the influence of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and insulin on gastric epithelial restoration in vitro. Rabbit gastric epithelial cells were cultured and formed a complete monolayer cell sheet in 2 days. We created a wound (1.8 +/- 0.05 mm2) by denuding an area of cells, and EGF (0.1-30 ng/ml) and/or insuli...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Maehiro K,Watanabe S,Hirose M,Iwazaki R,Miwa H,Sato N

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant methylation of CpG islands in promoter regions can permanently inactivate tumor-suppressor genes, as mutations and chromosomal abnormalities do. In gastric cancers, CDKN2A, CDH1, and MLH1 are inactivated more frequently by aberrant methylation than by mutations, and novel tumor-suppressor genes inactivated by...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ushijima T,Nakajima T,Maekita T

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We carried out this study to evaluate recent clinical features of Wilson's disease (WD) with hepatic presentation, especially in terms of age, degree of liver injury, and association with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS:Sixteen patients with hepatic manifestations were diagnosed with WD in the perio...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kumagi T,Horiike N,Michitaka K,Hasebe A,Kawai K,Tokumoto Y,Nakanishi S,Furukawa S,Hiasa Y,Matsui H,Kurose K,Matsuura B,Onji M

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) could be curable by "immune rest" and correction of the genetic predisposition inherent in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. However, balancing risks against benefits remains challenging. The application of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) serving as a site-regulated "dr...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Nagaishi K,Arimura Y,Fujimiya M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cowden's disease, multiple hamartoma syndrome, is a dominantly inherited disorder characterized by multiple hamartomas of ectodermal, endodermal, and mesodermal origin and also by a high incidence of malignant tumors. Despite many efforts to identify the genetic alterations responsible for the syndrome, the molecular ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Suzuki T,Ichinose M,Matsubara Y,Yahagi N,Kurokawa K,Fukamachi H,Miki K

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is the key ultimate goal set in essentially all treatment guidelines. There has been solid evidence supporting the relationship between serum hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA level and risk of HCC. Antiviral treatment with o...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yip TC,Lai JC,Wong GL

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the numerous efforts of randomized studies on advanced gastric cancer, no globally accepted standard regimen has yet been established. Two triplet regimens have already demonstrated significant survival prolongation in Western studies. However, the benefit seems to be marginal, and these regimens may be replac...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ohtsu A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ideal medication for the treatment of acid-related diseases, for example, hemorrhagic ulcers and stress-related gastric bleeding, should have a rapid onset of action to promote hemostasis and alleviate symptoms. The aim of our study was to investigate the inhibitory effects on gastric acid secretion afte...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Abe Y,Inamori M,Togawa J,Kikuchi T,Muramatsu K,Chiguchi G,Kawamura H,Kobayashi N,Kirikoshi H,Sakaguchi T,Takamura T,Nakajima A,Ueno N,Sekihara H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The search is on to find more effective drug regimens for patients with severe ulcerative colitis, as conventional drugs such as sulfasalazine and its congeners fail to prevent relapse in a significant number of patients. Azathioprine has also been reported to be useful as a steroid-sparing drug in patients ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Sood A,Kaushal V,Midha V,Bhatia KL,Sood N,Malhotra V

更新日期：2002-01-01 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