Computed tomographic colonography is valuable for post-treatment evaluation and screening of hidden colorectal cancer in patients with cryptogenic pyogenic liver abscess.

abstract：:A hepatitis C virus (HCV) chronically infected patient developed an episode of acute hepatitis during the course of immunosuppressive therapy given for a lymphoproliferative disease. It was noted that anti-HCV antibody response, seen to be relatively stable during the follow-up, lowered dramatically in coincidence wit...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Sansonno D,Procaccio P,Dammacco F

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine patients with short bowel syndrome and high intestinal output received octreotide either intravenously (50-100 micrograms t.i.d.) or subcutaneously (100 micrograms b.i.d.) on 2 test days. In the 6 patients with net secretory output, there was a reduction in mean daily intestinal output of 0.5-5.0 kg; total daily ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Nightingale JM,Walker ER,Burnham WR,Farthing MJ,Lennard-Jones JE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the long-term effect of argon plasma coagulation (APC) of gastric inlet patches in the cervical esophagus for patients suffering from globus sensation. METHODS:We intended to follow up all patients between 2004 and 2011 (n = 49) who received argon plasma ablation of gastric inlet patches for globus se...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Klare P,Meining A,von Delius S,Wolf P,Konukiewitz B,Schmid RM,Bajbouj M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bile duct stones (BDS) are usually removed via endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) or, if ERCP remains unsuccessful, percutaneous transhepatic cholangiodrainage (PTCD). However, PTCD provides limited access to large BDSs. We analyzed a modified approach of PTCD for percutaneous therapy of B...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Hollenbach M,Feisthammel J,Mössner J,Hoffmeister A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5 adrenalectomized subjects and 8 healthy volunteers underwent an insulin test during which acid secretion and plasma adrenaline, noradrenaline, dopamine and gastrin concentrations were measured. Plasma glucose concentration fell by greater than 50% in all subjects. The mean plasma adrenaline concentration increased m...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Järhult J,Hamberger B,Lanthén G,Ors M,Uvnäs-Wallensten K

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is recognized as a minimally invasive and curative treatment for superficial gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. However, ESD is still challenging and time-consuming with a high risk of adverse events such as bleeding and perforation. Various traction methods have been explo...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Kaku H,Toyonaga T,Tanaka S,Takihara H,Baba S,Tsubouchi E,Ikeda Y,Orita H,Nakamoto M,Horikawa Y,Chiba H,Ban H,Furumoto Y,Morita R,Kodama Y

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide viral hepatitis is the most common cause of jaundice, chronic liver disease cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. While important advances have been made in prevention of viral hepatitis, therapy of this disease remains unsatisfactory. There are no specific therapies of proven benefit for acute hepatitis, ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Hoofnagle JH

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery is the most common bariatric surgery worldwide. We have described thiamine deficiency in patients with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth after gastric bypass. We hypothesized that symptoms of thiamine deficiency are common after gastric bypass. The aims of this study...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Shah HN,Bal BS,Finelli FC,Koch TR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The esophageal epithelium maintains its integrity by both structural and functional epithelial defenses. Structural components are cell membranes and intercellular junctional complexes. Functional components are cellular defenses against acidification consisting of intracellular buffering by basic proteins and bicarbo...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Tobey NA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no generally accepted treatment in the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), probably because of a lack of convincing therapeutic trials. In the present study, 120 outpatients with IBS participated in a prospective randomized therapeutic trial. According to a double-blind design, 40 patients received 400 mg/day meb...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Kruis W,Weinzierl M,Schüssler P,Holl J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Despite the high prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), most individuals are unaware of its diagnosis. We assessed whether an upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy can accurately predict the incidence of OSAS. METHODS:After endoscopic evaluation of laryngo-pharyngeal collapse, a total o...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Ohata K,Sakai E,Nakao T,Kimoto Y,Ishii R,Konishi T,Ueno S,Takita M,Negishi R,Morinushi T,Muramoto T,Matsuhashi N,Nakaya T,Koba I,Nakaji S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although pain is the most feared part of the terminal life of many patients with cancer, the intensity and the quality of the pain is all too often only scantly described. METHOD:The quality and quantity of pain were prospectively registered by five variables, including a visual analogue scale (VAS), in 46 ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Grahm AL,Andrén-Sandberg A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a continuous diseases spectrum associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, and hyperlipidemia. Simple hepatic steatosis may progress to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), even fibrosis and cirrhosis, and finally hepatocellular carcinoma. In rece...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Zhong F,Zhou X,Xu J,Gao L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 39-year-old woman suffering from deep venous thrombosis due to a heterozygous factor-V-Leiden mutation with resistance to activated protein C. Four months after beginning oral anticoagulation, generalized jaundice appeared. Subsequently, subacute liver failure developed necessitating an orthotopic liver...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Mix H,Wagner S,Böker K,Gloger S,Oldhafer KJ,Behrend M,Flemming P,Manns MP

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:The aim of this study was to compare the accuracy of magnifying endoscopy with narrow band imaging for the diagnosis of depth of invasion by Japan Esophageal Society (JES) classification and inter- and intraobserver agreement of JES intrapapillary capillary loop (IPCL) classification. METHODS:It was a r...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Mizumoto T,Hiyama T,Quach DT,Sanomura Y,Urabe Y,Oka S,Arihiro K,Tanaka S,Chayama K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Esophageal cancer represents a heterogeneous malignancy mostly diagnosed in advanced stages. Worldwide, squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) continue to be the most prevalent subtype; however, in the Western countries, the incidence of adenocarcinomas is increasing and will exceed that of SCC in the near future. ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Krug S,Michl P

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that numerous macrophages which phagocytosed dextran sulfate sodium were observed to have accumulated in the mucosal lesions and in the spleen in experimental ulcerative colitis induced in mice with dextran sulfate sodium. In this paper, we investigated the bacterial phagocytic ability of macrop...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Ohkusa T,Okayasu I,Tokoi S,Araki A,Ozaki Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:In this report, we aimed to investigate the distribution and characterization of biomarker-immunolabeled ductal epithelium in advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). DESIGN:Eighteen patients with PDAC were medically diagnosed prior to being treated periodically. All clinical records were coll...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Zhou R,Xu X,Liu M,Wu X,Li R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal intestinal cells migrate and differentiate simultaneously as they move out of the crypts to their functional site along the villus. Interactions between the enterocyte basal membrane domain and the extracellular intestinal basement membrane (IBM) have been suggested to be essential to both cell migration and d...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Wilson JR,Weiser MM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic immune-mediated disorder of the gastrointestinal tract. The pathophysiological understanding of this disease is limited and no curative therapy is available so far. Therefore, most patients require long-lasting or even life-long immunosuppressive therapies for the suppressio...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Vetter M,Neurath MF

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:In this study, a clinical and serological follow-up of 8-10 years was performed in relatives of celiac disease (CD) patients from southern Brazil. The occurrence of new CD cases in the families and the use of two different IgA-tTG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits were also evaluated. METH...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Nass FR,Kotze LM,Nisihara RM,de Messias-Reason IJ,Ramos da Rosa Utiyama S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Several studies performed in Western countries demonstrate the association between sleep dysfunction and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), especially when nighttime heartburn is present. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence and risk factors of sleep dysfunction, and the effec...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Fujiwara Y,Kohata Y,Kaji M,Nebiki H,Yamasaki T,Sasaki E,Hayakawa T,Machida H,Tanigawa T,Watanabe K,Watanabe T,Tominaga K,Arakawa T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous investigations have demonstrated that the cellular signaling induced by hypoxia-reoxygenation is a major pathway contributing to gastric mucosal injury induced by stress, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and Helicobacter pylori. The aim of the present study was to perform a gene expression analysis of t...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Katada K,Naito Y,Mizushima K,Takagi T,Handa O,Kokura S,Ichikawa H,Yoshida N,Matsui H,Yoshikawa T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated a hand-held scintillation detector for intra-operative localisation of somatostatin-receptor-positive tumours in situ, and after excision, as an addition to preoperative scintigraphy with [111In-DTPA-Phe1]octreotide. Using the hand-held detector, the suspect tumour/normal tissue ratio R(in situ) between m...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Ahlman H

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amylase/creatinine clearance ratio (CAm/CCr), urinary protein concentration and urinary protein pattern were studied in 102 samples from 27 patients with acute pancreatitis and in 46 controls. Raised CAm/CCr, proteinuria and a tubular protein pattern were present in 74, 56 and 96% of the patients, respectively. Howeve...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Lankisch PG,Wolfrum DI,Koop H,Winckler K

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Evaluation of the response of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) symptoms to treatment would be facilitated by a brief, valid, reliable and responsive, self-assessed GERD-sensitive scale. We therefore developed the Reflux Questionnaire (ReQuest). This publication describes the psychometric evaluatio...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Mönnikes H,Bardhan KD,Stanghellini V,Berghöfer P,Bethke TD,Armstrong D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A manometric study of the distal biliary tract was carried out by means of a side-hole perfused catheter passed through the papilla Vateri during duodenoscopy in patients with postcholecystectomy biliary pain not due to stones or inflammation of the biliary tree. The sphincter of Oddi showed in these cases a significa...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Bortolotti M,Caletti GC,Brocchi E,Bersani G,Caletti T,Guizzardi G,Labò G

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now generally admitted that phytohemagglutinin (PHA) constitutes the main factor responsible for the dietary toxicity of raw kidney beans. In the growing rat, an impairment of growth is the unique expression of a malnutrition syndrome. The aim of this work was to precise to what extent the intestinal injuries ma...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Lafont J,Rouanet JM,Gabrion J,Assouad JL,Zambonino Infante JL,Besançon P

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevention of Helicobacter pylori infection may help to control related gastritis, peptic ulcer and cancer. Of the possible preventive measures, immunization was successfully employed in various animal studies. However, no immunization protocol has been accepted for humans. A better characterization of the i...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Lazowska I,Trzeciak L,Godlewska R,Hennig E,Jagusztyn-Krynicka K,Popowski J,Regula J,Ostrowski J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The changes in gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)-related symptoms on treatment are variously described, but currently available questionnaires have shortcomings. We therefore developed a self-assessment reflux questionnaire (ReQuest). This article describes the process of development and testing. ...

journal_title：Digestion

authors： Bardhan KD,Stanghellini V,Armstrong D,Berghöfer P,Gatz G,Mönnikes H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00