Appointment Wait Time, Primary Care Provider Status, and Patient Demographics are Associated With Nonattendance at Outpatient Gastroenterology Clinic.

abstract：:In this paper, I have focused on the issue of the clinical gastroenterologist who refuses to evaluate and endoscope the patient with AIDS. The discussion centers around the legal and ethical properties of such a decision, and the legal doctrine of abandonment. Finally, I have reviewed recent recommendations regarding ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Plumeri PA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient who presented with mechanical obstruction of the small bowel secondary to impaction of the ileocecal valve from a gallstone. The stone impaction of the ileocecal valve was confirmed by colonoscopy. Although the stone was disimpacted, it could not be trapped and extracted during colonoscopy. There...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Shenoy VN,Limbekar S,Long PB,Bashar AA

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosing a potentially life-threatening disease may adversely affect patient quality of life (QOL) independent of biologic effects. It is unknown whether the mere diagnosis of Barrett's esophagus (BE) adversely impacts patients' preferences (health-state utility) sufficiently to impair the cost-effectivene...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Rubenstein JH,Inadomi JM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary intake and plasma lipids were estimated in 200 patients with gallstones and 98 control subjects from a hospital in Northern India and were matched for age, sex, and social class. The intake of total calories and carbohydrates and the plasma triglyceride values were higher in all gallstone patients as compared ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Tandon RK,Saraya A,Paul S,Kapur BM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rate of Helicobacter pylori is decreasing in the developed countries, but few long-term studies are available from the United States. We retrospectively assessed the annual H. pylori infection rate in symptomatic children seen in our clinic over a 13-year study period. STUDY:A retrospective analysis of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Elitsur Y,Dementieva Y,Rewalt M,Lawrence Z

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinicopathologic findings in eight Mexican patients with immunoproliferative small intestinal disease (IPSID) are analyzed. Four of these cases have been previously reported and the remainder were found in a retrospective review of 42 lymphoproliferative disorders of the small bowel (9.5% of the cases at our inst...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Arista-Nasr J,González-Romo MA,Mantilla-Morales A,Lazos-Ochoa M,Ortiz-Hidalgo C

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue distribution of a previously identified M(r) 40 K epithelial autoantigen in ulcerative colitis was examined in situ in the fetal tissue by immunocytochemical method, using an immunoglobulin M (IgM) monoclonal antibody (7E12H12). Fetal-autopsy tissue from 9 to 19 weeks of development (11-21 gestational weeks...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Das KM,Squillante L,Chitayet D,Kalousek DK

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the successful FDA approval of sorafenib as the standard of care therapy in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), its clinical benefits have been modest. The mortality rate remains high and prognosis poor for patients with advanced-stage HCC. The exact mechanism of sorafenib in the treatment o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Lee JK,Abou-Alfa GK

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with recently healed duodenal ulcers were enrolled at 14 participating centers in a 12-month study comparing the effectiveness of ranitidine and cimetidine, two H2-receptor blockers, for maintenance therapy. Patients were randomly assigned to take bedtime doses of 150 mg of ranitidine (n = 60) or 400 mg of ci...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Silvis SE

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is becoming increasingly recognized that purely clinical endpoints may not be sufficient in the treatment of patients with inflammatory bowel disease. As such, mucosal disease assessment has become a prominent component of the majority of recent clinical trials in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. There is mo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Osterman MT

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Probiotics are investigated as single-strain and multistrain products. In the market, however, there is an increasing tendency to work with multistrain probiotics, in particular, products with a high number of different strains. There are some thoughts behind this: more strains imply more chances of success; it can me...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Ouwehand AC,Invernici MM,Furlaneto FAC,Messora MR

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 61-year-old man developed obstructive jaundice and had ultrasonographic and cholangiopancreatographic findings consistent with carcinoma of the pancreas. However, pathologically the obstruction proved to be from heterotopic pancreatic tissue compressing the common bile duct. This patient and eight previously reporte...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： O'Reilly DJ,Craig RM,Lorenzo G,Yokoo H

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinicopathologic features of 221 patients with intestinal-type (IT) gastric cancer were compared retrospectively with those of 290 diffuse type (DT). Intestinal type was characterized by an older mean age (65.0 +/- 10.8 years vs. 56.2 +/- 13 years), a higher male-female ratio (2.56 vs. 1.06), predominance of bloo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Wu MS,Yang KC,Shun CT,Hsiao TJ,Lin CC,Wang HP,Chuang SM,Lee WJ,Lin JT

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-four patients who were endoscopically confirmed to have healed duodenal ulcers were entered into this 1-year, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of sucralfate, 1g twice daily, in the prevention of duodenal ulcer recurrence. Patients remained in the study until recurrence of ulceration was endoscopically con...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Behar J,Roufail W,Thomas E,Keller F,Dernbach W,Tesler MA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vitamin deficiency is frequently associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Supplementation of vitamins could thus serve as an adjunctive therapy. The present meta-analysis reviews the deficiencies and alterations in serum fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K) reported in IBD patients. MATERIALS AND ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Fabisiak N,Fabisiak A,Watala C,Fichna J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The clinical effect of probiotics on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is still controversial. AIMS:We aimed to evaluate the effects of a probiotic mixture on IBS symptoms and the composition of fecal microbiota in patients with diarrhea-dominant IBS (D-IBS). METHODS:Fifty patients with D-IBS were randomized ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Ki Cha B,Mun Jung S,Hwan Choi C,Song ID,Woong Lee H,Joon Kim H,Hyuk J,Kyung Chang S,Kim K,Chung WS,Seo JG

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Practitioners of endoscopy often experience musculoskeletal pain and injury (most often in the back, neck, shoulders, hands, wrists, and thumbs) that are associated with the minute and repetitive strain that is placed on these areas during endoscopic procedures. This review of the current documentation of endoscopy-re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Harvin G

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to assess histologic and ultrastructural features of gastric mucosa in the areas of grossly healed ulcers (acetic acid-induced gastric ulcers) in rats. The specific question we studied was whether the structure and cellular composition of the gastric mucosa in an area of grossly healed u...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Tarnawski A,Hollander D,Krause WJ,Dabros W,Stachura J,Gergely H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：GOALS:To evaluate the effects of probucol, an agent with strong antioxidant properties, in reversing biochemical changes in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). BACKGROUND:There is currently no well-established medical treatment of NASH. It is believed that oxidative stress plays a major role in hepatic damage in thes...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Merat S,Malekzadeh R,Sohrabi MR,Hormazdi M,Naserimoghadam S,Mikaeli J,Farahvash MJ,Ansari R,Sotoudehmanesh R,Khatibian M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review discusses gastrointestinal manifestations of parathyroid diseases. Parathyroid hormone is the primary regulator of calcium physiology. Hypoparathyroidism can be idiopathic, hereditary, or secondary to surgery in the neck. Hyperparathyroidism is usually from adenomas or hyperplasia. Hypoparathyroidism is as...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Ebert EC

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-four black patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) were seen from 1960 to 1987 at the Medical College of Georgia, representing 22% of all patients with IBD: 38 of them had Crohn's disease (CD) and 26 had ulcerative colitis (UC). In those with CD, the small intestine alone was involved in 16% and ileocolit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Simsek H,Schuman BM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guidelines for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) management have recommended that a liver biopsy be repeated at 3-year intervals for HIV/HCV-coinfected patients and 5-year intervals for those with HCV monoinfection to assess fibrosis progression. However, it is unclear if patients are willing to repeat this pr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Amorosa VK,Aibana O,Shire NJ,Dorey-Stein Z,Ferrara T,Gilmore J,Kostman JR,Lo Re V 3rd

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article emphasizes and reviews the premise that because the pathogenesis of acute gastric mucosal injury is multifactorial, several protective mechanisms should also be considered in analyzing gastric mucosal defense. The first part of the article reviews the pathogenesis of acute gastric mucosal injury by major ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Szabo S

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：GOAL:To study the rate at which Helicobacter pylori infection is treated in an immigrant cohort after diagnosis by esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). BACKGROUND:Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide, and is especially prevalent in East Asia; immigrants from this part of the world remain a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Cho A,Chaudhry A,Minsky-Primus L,Tso A,Perez-Perez G,Diehl DL,Marcus SG,Gany FM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective clinical, endoscopic, and histopathologic study of the esophagus was carried out in 24 patients with advanced liver disease who underwent esophageal variceal sclerotherapy (EVS) and who eventually came to autopsy. Patients were arbitrarily divided into three groups: acute (group I), intermediate (group I...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Kage M,Korula J,Harada A,Mucientes F,Kanel G,Peters RL

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current COVID-19 pandemic, there has been concern regarding the use of ibuprofen and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents by COVID-19 infected patients. Aminosalicylates (5-ASAs) are structurally similar and have anti-inflammatory functions that resemble those of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents. Si...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Ehrenpreis ED,Kruchko DH

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：GOALS:We evaluated the efficacy of initial and follow-up hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG), models of end-stage liver disease (MELD), and MELD-Na for predicting the survival of patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis (LC). BACKGROUND:MELD with/without Na score and HVPG have been important predictors of morta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Suk KT,Kim CH,Park SH,Sung HT,Choi JY,Han KH,Hong SH,Kim DY,Yoon JH,Kim YS,Baik GH,Kim JB,Kim DJ

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastroesophageal varices are a direct consequence of portal hypertension. Nonselective beta-adrenergic blockers decrease portal pressure and are effective in preventing variceal hemorrhage. However, a large multicenter placebo-controlled trial demonstrates that nonselective beta-adrenergic blockers are not effective i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Garcia-Tsao G

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney stones in patients with inflammatory bowel disease are usually composed of calcium oxalate. Two factors are important in the increased absorption of dietary oxalate which is responsible for those stones: 1) increased absorption of oxalate in the presence of steatorrhea, and 2) increased permeability of the colo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Dobbins JW

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intensity of diagnostic workup of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related chronic diarrhea is controversial. In the ideal setting in which an enteric pathogen is detected with minimal evaluation (stool tests) and in which specific treatment clears the diarrhea, eradicates the pathogen, and improve...

journal_title：Journal of clinical gastroenterology

authors： Rabeneck L

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00