The role of FDG-PET and staging laparoscopy in the management of patients with cancer of the esophagus or gastroesophageal junction.

abstract：:The role of hormones and growth factors in the pathogenesis and therapy of colon cancer is biologically intricate and medically important. The effects of the previously described hormones and growth factors on normal and neoplastic colonic growth and development suggest the mechanisms by which hormonal alteration migh...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Conteas CN,Desai TK,Arlow FA

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation therapy (RT) has been used to treat cancers for more than a century. Recent randomized trials have helped clarify the treatment recommendations in the use of RT for colorectal cancers. This article reviews these trials to illustrate key concepts, places these trials in perspective, and provides direction for...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Robertson JM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conclusion, H. pylori infection can be detected by a variety of methods. The simplest, least expensive noninvasive method is serologic testing. Unfortunately, positive serology can only presume current infection. Urea breath testing is also noninvasive and is positive only in the setting of current infection; it is...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Brown KE,Peura DA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity-related disorders derive from a combination of genetic susceptibility and environmental factors. Recent evidence supports the role of gut microbiota in the pathogenesis of obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and insulin resistance by increasing energy harvest from diet and by inducing chronic, low-grade inflamm...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Molinaro F,Paschetta E,Cassader M,Gambino R,Musso G

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anal cancer is rare and this helps to explain why anal pre-neoplastic conditions are poorly understood, especially with regard to their natural history and management. Anal intraepithelial neoplasia is closely linked to human papillomavirus infection and is particularly common in homosexuals and in immunosuppressed pa...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Shepherd NA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic angiosarcoma is the second most common primary malignant neoplasm of the liver. Although comprising only 2 per cent of all hepatic primary tumors, it represents a major clinical problem because of its strong association with industrial vinyl chloride exposure and its incurability. Strict ceilings on the amount...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Weinman MD,Chopra S

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bile supersaturation is necessary for cholesterol gallstones to form. Not all people with supersaturated bile form gallstones, however, and additional factors must be present. The role of pronucleating substances has been extensively studied. Of these, proteins, especially mucin, are best understood. Mucin is secreted...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Ko CW,Lee SP

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is steroid-responsive fibroinflammatory disorder of the pancreas. There are 2 distinct subtypes of AIP, types 1 and 2. Type 1 is associated with systemic immunoglobulin (Ig)G4 disease and may affect multiple organs in the body. Type 2 is confined to the pancreas and shows an association w...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Sandrasegaran K,Menias CO

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the perioperative risks associated with surgical procedures performed in patients with HIV disease is a difficult and complex task. Because HIV is a contagious, blood-borne pathogen, it threatens the health and well-being of both patient and health care provider. Despite poor early results, there is now co...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Harris HW,Schecter WP

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an immune-mediated disease and involves a complex interplay of host genetics and environmental influences. Recent advances in the field, including data from genome-wide association studies and microbiome analysis, have started to unravel the complex interaction between host genetics...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Dave M,Papadakis KA,Faubion WA Jr

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal immune system is intimately connected with the vast diversity of microbes present within the gut and the diversity of food components that are consumed daily. The discovery of novel molecular mechanisms, which mediate host-microbe-nutrient communication, have highlighted the important roles played by mi...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Smolinska S,Groeger D,O'Mahony L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crohn's disease is not medically (and is rarely surgically) curable. Patients do, however, live a normal life span. The goal of therapy is to optimize the quality of life, minimize disease activity and disease-related complications, and avoid therapeutic toxicity. ...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Harrison J,Hanauer SB

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The five different viruses that cause human viral hepatitis, A, B, C, D, and E share the unique property of hepatotropism. Identification of the nucleic acid sequences of each of these viruses, coupled with the application of recombinant DNA technology, has resulted in the rapid development of molecular diagnostic tec...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Hu KQ,Vierling JM

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because there are no reliable biological or laboratory markers associated with the condition, the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome(IBS) is based on patient descriptions of common symptoms such as abdominal pain accompanied by changes in stool form or frequency and associated symptoms such as bloating and distensi...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Cash BD,Chey WD

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric pancreatitis is an emerging field with an increasing incidence of disease. Management of pediatric pancreatitis is understudied and, therefore, extrapolated from adult studies (although the etiologies are different). There is evidence that feeding is safe in mild acute pancreatitis in children without increa...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Abu-El-Haija M,Lowe ME

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has become routine despite a lack of evidence of efficacy. Suitable candidates for surveillance include patients with cirrhosis and some subsets of noncirrhotic chronic hepatitis B carriers. The best surveillance testis ultrasonography at 6- to 12-month intervals. Serolo...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Sherman M,Takayama Y

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arguments proposed in this article may explain why a subgroup of patients, having so-called "functional heartburn," does not respond to acid inhibition therapy [19,20]. It is highly likely that acid is not the cause of heartburn in this group of subjects. These conclusions are supported further by observations of Wien...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Steinbach J,Fass R,Mittal RK

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the initial discovery of H. pylori by Marshall and Warren 17 years ago, much progress has been made in treating this infection. However, as we enter the millennium, H. pylori infection continues to be one of the most common infections of mankind. In addition, eradication of H. pylori still requires multiple anti...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Blanchard TG,Czinn SJ

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the role of therapeutic endoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of nonvariceal upper and lower gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage. The initial approach to patients with GI bleeding is reviewed. Endoscopic treatment of various stigmata of recent peptic ulcer hemorrhage is discussed in detail. Manage...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Savides TJ,Jensen DM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many disorders of the gastrointestinal tract have cutaneous manifestations. Thus, a careful examination of the skin may uncover clues to underlying diseases of the liver, gastrointestinal tract, and pancreas. This article explores the alimentary-cutaneous relationship. ...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Ward SK,Roenigk HH,Gordon KB

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of infectious enteric pathogens (bacterial, viral, and protozoal) can lead to a systemic diarrheal illness in international travelers traveling from industrialized countries to developing areas of the world. Many of the agents that lead to this syndrome have been identified, and their mode of transmission ha...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Chak A,Banwell JG

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A better definition of a pseudocyst that clearly separates it from acute fluid collection, improvements in imaging studies, and a better understanding of the natural history of pseudocysts have changed the concepts regarding their management. The old teaching that cysts of more than 6 cm in diameter that have been pre...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Pitchumoni CS,Agarwal N

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric cancers are a histologically heterogenous group of neoplasms arising from unique epidemiologic and molecular backgrounds. There is accumulating evidence that the intestinal type of gastric adenocarcinoma develops through a multistep process beginning with chronic gastritis triggered primarily by Helicobacter p...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Yakirevich E,Resnick MB

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune pancreatitis is the pancreatic manifestation of a systemic disorder that affects various organs, including the bile duct, retroperitoneum, kidney, and parotid and lacrimal glands. It represents a recently described subset of chronic pancreatitis that is immune mediated and has unique histologic, morphologic...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Gardner TB,Chari ST

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, the epidemiology of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is reviewed. Demographic features and natural history are described, the prevalence and incidence of EoE are highlighted, and risk factors for EoE are discussed. EoE can occur at any age, there is a male predominance, it is more common in whites, and ...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Dellon ES

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic gastrointestinal endoscopy has a much greater risk of inducing gastrointestinal hemorrhage than diagnostic endoscopy. For example, colonoscopic polypectomy has a risk of approximately 1.6% of inducing bleeding, compared with a risk of approximately 0.02% for diagnostic colonoscopy. Higher-risk procedures i...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Cappell MS,Abdullah M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rarely do otherwise safe drugs administered at recommended doses produce liver damage that may progress to liver failure and death. Because we are generally unable to identify the patients most susceptible to this "idiosyncratic" form of toxicity, many potentially useful medications are not made available to patients....

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Fontana RJ,Watkins PB

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus is rapidly increasing in the Western world. In North America and western Europe, a marked shift in the epidemiologic profile of this disease has occurred. In the past, most patients with esophageal cancer were found to have epidermoid carcinoma. These patients frequentl...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Kelsen D

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BA is a rare disease of unclear etiology; nevertheless, its impact in the field of pediatric hepatology is significant. It is the most common surgically correctable cause of neonatal cholestasis and is the most common pediatric disease referred for liver transplantation. Little progress has been made with regard to im...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Haber BA,Russo P

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestine transplant is indicated for patients with intestinal failure who are unable to be weaned from parenteral nutrition (PN). Long-term PN, although life sustaining in many patients, can be associated with life-threatening complications including PN-associated liver disease (PNALD). Most patients are not consider...

journal_title：Gastroenterology clinics of North America

authors： Fryer JP

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00