Atypical antipsychotic quetiapine in the management of severe refractory functional gastrointestinal disorders.

abstract：AIM:To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness and complications of BRTO for gastric varices. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A systematic review was performed to identify relevant articles. Inclusion criteria were applied to select studies with at least ten patients with acute bleeding or at-risk gas...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Park JK,Saab S,Kee ST,Busuttil RW,Kim HJ,Durazo F,Cho SK,Lee EW

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is regarded as the major risk factor of bacterial translocation. Few studies have investigated the direct relation between SIBO and translocation in cirrhotic patients. The purpose of this study is to examine the correlation between SIBO and bacterial DNA in the p...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Jun DW,Kim KT,Lee OY,Chae JD,Son BK,Kim SH,Jo YJ,Park YS

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether alcohol drinking is a risk factor for fatty liver as shown by ultrasonography was investigated by both cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches in Japanese undergoing a health checkup. In this cross-sectional study, 32,438 males (49.0 +/- 11.9 years old) and 31,009 females (48.2 +/- 11.6 yea...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Yamada T,Fukatsu M,Suzuki S,Yoshida T,Tokudome S,Joh T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Although cholesterol levels are elevated in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), most PBC patients are not at increased risk of dying from atherosclerotic heart disease. There is, however, a subgroup, approximately 10%, who have additional disorders of lipid metabolism. They might benefit f...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Abu Rajab M,Kaplan MM

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy is a time when women are susceptible to bowel habit perturbations. The purpose of this study was to provide new baseline data for a range of bowel habit parameters. Prospective 7-day bowel habit diaries were completed during each of the three trimesters of pregnancy and after birth. Sensations of incomplete ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Derbyshire EJ,Davies J,Detmar P

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) criteria are histologically categorized by early gastric cancer (EGC) with differentiated- and undifferentiated-type histology. However, EGC is histologically heterogenous and there have been no separate criteria for EGC with mixed-type histology [EGC-MH; differentiated...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Bang CS,Yang YJ,Lee JJ,Baik GH

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the [14C]triolein breath test for fat malabsorption with fecal fat excretion corrected for marker pellet recovery in 23 subjects with chronic liver disease. The breath test identified 15 of the 17 subjects with abnormal fecal fat excretion (sensitivity 88%). However, four of the six subjects with norm...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Absalom SR,Saverymuttu SH,Maxwell JD,Levin GE

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clonality of gastric glands remains a controversial topic. Chimeric mouse studies suggested that all gastric glands were monoclonal. However, using the X-linked transgenic mouse model, we have suggested that most glands are polyclonal during development and that the fraction of monoclonal glands increases after bi...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Nomura S,Kaminishi M,Takagi N,Esumi H

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important histologic feature of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is infiltration of the colonic mucosa with neutrophils. To investigate the nature of the chemotactic agents responsible for this infiltration, colonic mucosa from three normals and nine patients with inflammatory bowel disease (seven ulcerative coliti...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Lobos EA,Sharon P,Stenson WF

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low or minimal doses of aspirin are widely used for prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Aspirin is known to produce severe adverse gastrointestinal effects, such as bleeding and perforation. Less is known about the risk associated with minidose aspirin. Our aim was to assess the possible association of upper gastro...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Sapoznikov B,Vilkin A,Hershkovici M,Fishman M,Eliakim R,Niv Y

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic enterocolitis is a well-recognized entity occurring in cocaine users. Diagnosis is based on the presence of rectal bleeding, abdominal pain, a history of cocaine use, supportive endoscopic and histopathologic findings, and the absence of other etiologic mechanisms of ischemic colitis. In this study, we evalua...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Niazi M,Kondru A,Levy J,Bloom AA

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orocecal transit time was determined by the lactulose hydrogen breath test in nine healthy volunteers after administration of placebo, loperamide (16 mg per os), and loperamide (16 mg per os) followed by oral naloxone at doses of 16 and 32 mg. The four tests were performed in double-blind conditions and in random sequ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Basilisco G,Camboni G,Bozzani A,Paravicini M,Bianchi PA

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at increased risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC) compared with the general population. Previous studies show this risk is strongly associated with dysplasia, extent of disease, duration of disease, and degree of inflammation, while chemoprevention ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Tang J,Sharif O,Pai C,Silverman AL

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Recent evidence suggests that psychological factors may affect esophageal as well as intestinal motility. To study this further, we compared the psychological profiles of 20 irritable bowel patients and 20 patients with recurrent noncardiac chest pain associated with high-amplitude peristaltic contractions i...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Richter JE,Obrecht WF,Bradley LA,Young LD,Anderson KO

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the mortality rates for non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding (NVUGIB) have recently decreased, it remains a significant medical problem. AIM:The main aim of this prospective multicenter database study was to construct a clinically useful predictive scoring system by using our predictors and...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Hwang S,Jeon SW,Kwon JG,Lee DW,Ha CY,Cho KB,Jang B,Park JB,Park YS,Daegu-Gyengbuk Gastrointestinal Study Group (DGSG).

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulating evidence suggests that Foxp3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells act as inhibitory mediators of inflammation; however, the in vivo mechanism underlying this protection remains elusive in liver diseases. AIMS:To clarify the in vivo role of Foxp3+ Treg cells in liver fibrosis, we used the DEREG mouse, whi...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Roh YS,Park S,Lim CW,Kim B

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We hypothesized that the severity of dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced colitis could differ between DSS preparations of the same molecular weight, and that this difference may be affected by the sulfur content. To test this, we used three DSS preparations of similar molecular weights but with different su...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Bamba S,Andoh A,Ban H,Imaeda H,Aomatsu T,Kobori A,Mochizuki Y,Shioya M,Nishimura T,Inatomi O,Sasaki M,Saitoh Y,Tsujikawa T,Araki Y,Fujiyama Y

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) by transient elastography is a popular noninvasive test of fibrosis. Traditional LSM cutoffs dichotomize patients and do not clearly indicate the confidence of diagnosis. AIM:We derived and validated probability functions of fibrosis and cirrhosis based on LSM and determine...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Wong VW,Lampertico P,de Lédinghen V,Chang PE,Kim SU,Chen Y,Chan HL,Mangia G,Foucher J,Chow WC,Ahn SH,Hou J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biliary cannulation failure is a major problem during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. It remains unclear how duodenal papilla morphology affects biliary cannulation. Therefore, we proposed a new classification system for the duodenal papilla based on oral protrusion pattern (ratio of the leng...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Watanabe M,Okuwaki K,Kida M,Imaizumi H,Yamauchi H,Kaneko T,Iwai T,Hasegawa R,Miyata E,Masutani H,Tadehara M,Adachi K,Koizumi W

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) are limited to studies from tertiary care centers. There is a paucity of information about CVS on a national scale. AIM:To study the clinical characteristics, comorbidities, and hospital outcomes in patients hospitalized with CVS using a nationwide database. METHODS:W...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Bhandari S,Venkatesan T

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the number one cause of liver disease in the United States. The prevalence rates in African Americans (AA), while significantly lower than other ethnic groups with similar known risk factors, have been quoted as high as 24 %. We aim to determine if the pre...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Foster T,Anania FA,Li D,Katz R,Budoff M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic chronic constipation is a frequent and disabling symptom, but its pathophysiological grounds are still poorly understood. In particular, there is little knowledge about the relationships between distal (anorectal area) and proximal (colonic area) motor abnormalities in this condition, especially concerning ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Bassotti G,Chiarioni G,Vantini I,Betti C,Fusaro C,Pelli MA,Morelli A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our hospital within one year two patients with Crohn's disease were seen who developed an acute myelocytic leukemia. A review of the literature reveals eight previously reported patients with both Crohn's disease and leukemia. Six of the reported 10 patients have had acute myelocytic leukemia and, interestingly, th...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Halme L,von Knorring J,Elonen E

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosis of pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) remains challenging. We aimed at the value of immunohistochemical assessment of CD30+ lymphocytes in the intestinal mucosa in differential diagnosis between pediatric Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) and its utility as a predictor of fu...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Fabian O,Hradsky O,Drskova T,Mikus F,Zamecnik J,Bronsky J

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:The association between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and apolipoprotein C3 gene (APOC3) promoter region single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs2854117 and rs2854116 is controversial. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between other polymorphisms of APOC3 and NAFLD...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Zhang RN,Zheng RD,Mi YQ,Zhou D,Shen F,Chen GY,Zhu CY,Pan Q,Fan JG

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5HT) was studied in circular and longitudinal muscle from the proximal and distal colon of New Zealand white rabbits. 5HT stimulated a dose-dependent isometric contraction of distal and proximal circular muscle that was greater than in distal longitudinal muscle (P less than 0.01). 5...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Ng WW,Jing J,Hyman PE,Snape WJ Jr

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 62-year-old male presented with painless jaundice and solitary pulmonary and pancreatic masses. An extensive evaluation revealed Wegener's granulomatosis as the etiology. His pancreatic mass and jaundice responded to temporary stenting and therapy with cyclophosphamide and prednisone. While pancreatic vasculitis in ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： O'Neil KM,Jones DM,Lawson JM

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are widely prescribed to treat gastrointestinal diseases. However, concerns have been raised regarding their long-term use. Gastric acid suppression may decrease iron absorption, and it remains uncertain whether iron-deficiency anemia may result from chronic PPI therapy. AIMS:W...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Sarzynski E,Puttarajappa C,Xie Y,Grover M,Laird-Fick H

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our previous study has shown that MYO5B is downregulated in gastric cancer. However, the mechanism by which the expression of MYO5B was inhibited remains unknown. METHODS:Inspection of the human MYO5B locus uncovered a large and dense CpG island within the 5' region of this gene. Methylation-specific PCR (M...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Dong W,Wang L,Shen R

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suspected risk factors for adenocarcinoma of the small bowel in Crohn's disease include surgically excluded small bowel loops, chronic fistulous disease, and male sex. Review of all seven University of Chicago cases failed to confirm any suspected risk factor. A case-control study was performed to identify possible al...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Lashner BA

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00