Mansoura simple scoring system for prediction of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis: lesson learnt.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Bile acids (BAs) are potent signaling molecules involved in the regulation of several metabolic and functional aspects of cardiovascular homeostasis. BA pool alteration in cirrhosis may contribute toward the development of hemodynamic and cardiac disturbances. We aimed to investigate the association...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Voiosu AM,Wiese S,Voiosu TA,Hove J,Bendtsen F,Møller S

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our aim is to establish the risk factors for carrying high-grade dysplasia or carcinoma by analyzing endoscopically treated adenoma cases. METHODS:Patients who underwent endoscopic polypectomy at our hospitals between January 2003 and August 2004 were analyzed. RESULTS:A total of 889 patients (mean age: 63+...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Kurome M,Kato J,Nawa T,Fujimoto T,Yamamoto H,Shiode J,Wato M,Kuwaki K,Okada H,Sakaguchi K,Shiratori Y

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The response to immunosuppressive therapy in autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a matter of debate. The aim of this work is to identify the histological, biochemical, and clinical predictive factors of incomplete response/treatment failure to the standard treatment (prednisone with or without azath...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Abdel-Razik A,Mousa N,Zakaria S,Elhelaly R,Elzehery R,Zalata K,Awad M,Eldeeb AA,Abdelsalam M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophylactic antibiotics have been recommended in patients with a previous history of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP). Recently, there has been interest in the use of rifaximin for the prevention of SBP and hepatorenal syndrome (HRS). We conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate this association of rifaximin. We s...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Kamal F,Khan MA,Khan Z,Cholankeril G,Hammad TA,Lee WM,Ahmed A,Waters B,Howden CW,Nair S,Satapathy SK

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a case of recurrent variceal bleeding from gastric varices, which was treated with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) and Histoacryl injection into the gastric varices. Furthermore, the patient had a small patent foramen ovale without a right-to-left shunt. After the intervention, the pa...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Appenrodt B,Schepke M,Kuntz-Hehner S,Schmiedel A,Sauerbruch T

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary intestinal lymphangiectasia is characterized by dilated small bowel lymphatics and loss of lymph into the bowel lumen resulting in hypoproteinaemia and oedema. Some patients have a more generalized lymphatic abnormality associated with lymphoedema of the limbs and chylous pleural effusions. There is no specifi...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Ballinger AB,Farthing MJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:A combination of omeprazole plus amoxycillin (Amo) and clarithromycin (CIa) for 7 days has been studied extensively. However, the role of other proton pump inhibitors, such as pantoprazole (Pan), in this therapy is not well known. On the other hand, ranitidine bismuth citrate (RBC) also seems to be effective when c...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Gisbert JP,Carpio D,Marcos S,Gisbert JL,García Grávalos R,Pajares JM

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) in patients with ascites is established by definition with a polymorphonuclear (PMN) cell count in the ascitic fluid greater than 0.250 g/l determined via cytological (microscopic) examination. In this study, we correlated the automatically as...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Link BC,Ziske CG,Schepke M,Schmidt-Wolf IG,Sauerbruch T

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the impact of preoperative transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent-shunt (TIPSS) on patients undergoing liver transplantation. DESIGN:A retrospective non-randomized comparative clinical study. SETTING:Tertiary referral institution. PATIENTS, PARTICIPANTS:Twenty-four patients with liver...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： John TG,Jalan R,Stanley AJ,Redhead DN,Sanfey HA,Hayes PC,Garden OJ

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastritis cystica profunda (GCP) is a rare disease that shows multiple cystic gastric glands dispersed within the submucosa of the stomach. GCP occurs most commonly in patients who have undergone previous gastric surgery and presents as subepithelial tumor or a polypoid lesion. Here, we report the case of GCP in a 79-...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Effenberger M,Steinle H,Offner FA,Vogel W,Millonig G

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori appears to be the most important cause of gastritis and gastric and duodenal ulcer. Its eradication, in fact, promotes healing of these diseases and significantly reduces ulcer recurrence. In the last few years, moreover, besides a local tissue damage, an association between H. pylori infection and...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Gasbarrini A,Franceschi F,Gasbarrini G,Pola P

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Hepatitis A is among the diseases that can be prevented with vaccination in our time. Acute hepatitis A progresses more severely in individuals with a liver disease. Therefore, patients with a chronic liver disease (because of hepatitis B or hepatitis C) are advised vaccination with the hepatitis A vaccine. This st...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Özden HT

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The endoscopic (13)C-urea breath test ((13)C-EUBT), which combines the urea breath test (UBT) with endoscopy, provides high accuracy for the detection of Helicobacter pylori. This study was conducted to determine whether the (13)C-EUBT using low doses of urea and short sampling times could preserve accuracy i...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Isomoto H,Inoue K,Shikuwa S,Furusu H,Nishiyama T,Omagari K,Mizuta Y,Murase K,Murata I,Enjoji A,Kanematsu T,Kohno S

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:A significant proportion of patients presenting with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) have negative small bowel capsule endoscopy (SBCE) examinations, and yet remain at risk of rebleeding. We aimed to evaluate whether a second-look review of SBCE images using flexible spectral color enhanceme...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Dias de Castro F,Magalhães J,Boal Carvalho P,Cúrdia Gonçalves T,Rosa B,Moreira MJ,Cotter J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing amount of evidence indicates that the intestinal flora plays a pathogenic role in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): hence, the use of anti-bacterial agents as ancillary treatment in patients with ulcerative colitis, or Crohn's disease. While the results with anti-tubercular agents remain inconclusive, antibi...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Guslandi M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to look at the correlation between recurrent abdominal pain and the presence of recent stressful life events among schoolchildren in a rural district in Malaysia. METHOD:This is a cross-sectional study of schoolchildren aged 9-15 years based in Kuala Langat, a rural district loc...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Boey CC,Goh KL

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant pancreas is a congenital anomaly. In surgical series, its incidence varied from 0.2 to 0.8%. About 70% of aberrant pancreas occur in the gastrointestinal tract. Eighty percent of them locate in the stomach and duodenum, and only 0.2% in the ileum. We report on a 25-year-old woman with ileal aberrant pancreas ...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Huang WS,Kuo CH,Changchien CS,Hsu KL,Lin CC

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 61-year-old man had a liver resection for a bilobar mass thought to be, by imaging techniques, an hepatocellular carcinoma. He had been treated for the last 12 years by venesections for genetic haemochromatosis complicated by well-compensated cirrhosis. At surgery, prothrombin time and platelet count were normal, as...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Blanc JF,Bernard PH,Carles J,Le Bail B,Balabaud C,Bioulac-Sage P

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a constant balance in cancer cells between division and death. The malignant phenotype is associated with a continuing cell cycle or 'immortalization'. Telomeres, structures that cap the chromosomes, are related to cell longevity and are regulated by a ribonucleoprotein called telomerase. This review describe...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Crocker J

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A woman with stage III (pre-cirrhotic) primary biliary cirrhosis was referred for liver transplantation because of intractable pruritus. Oral administration of 50 mg naltrexone precipitated a severe opioid withdrawal-like reaction. Subsequently, when oral naltrexone therapy was reintroduced following a cautious infusi...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Neuberger J,Jones EA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of duodenal diverticula are asymptomatic but may also induce major haemorrhage on rare occasions. Gastrointestinal bleeding due to angiodysplasia in a duodenal diverticulum is very rare. We present a 70-year-old woman with repeated melaena in whom the diagnosis of angiodysplasia in a diverticulum of the f...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Günşar F,Yildiz C,Aydin A,Ozütemiz OA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Placental growth factor (PlGF) is known for its role in pathological conditions to protect parenchymal cells of different organs from injury, whereas its presence in the liver and its potential importance in stimulating liver regeneration has never been described. This was investigated in this study usi...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Vanheule E,Fan YD,Van Huysse J,Meester D,Olievier K,Praet M,de Hemptinne B,Colle I

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate in a large group of volunteer blood donors the prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) and the relation of transaminase (ALT) levels and viraemia to liver damage. DESIGN:A prospective study. SETTING:Transfusion Centre of the Autonomous Community of Madrid and the Liver Unit of t...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Muñoz-Gómez R,García-Monzón C,García-Buey L,Lo Iacono O,Borque MJ,Garía-Sánchez A,Pajares JM,Moreno-Otero R

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the differences in mortality between terlipressin and somatostatin treatments in cirrhotic patients with esophageal variceal bleeding (EVB) and renal functional impairment (RFI). METHODS:The National Health Insurance Database, part of the Taiwan National Health Insurance Program, was used to enroll ...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Hung TH,Tsai CC,Tseng CW,Tseng KC,Hsieh YH,Tsai CC

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory process, the aetiology of which is complex and probably multi-factorial. Nutrition has been proposed to be an important aetiological factor for IBD. The present review critically examines the relationship between components of the diet (such as sugar, fat, fib...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Cashman KD,Shanahan F

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:There are millions of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) virus-infected patients who have been treated with a combination therapy (interferon and ribavirin) and have achieved a virological response (SVR) worldwide. The aim of this study is to evaluate the risk factors for de-novo diabetes mellitus in CHC pati...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Mousa N,Abdel-Razik A,Farag R,Shabana W,Elgamal A,El-Wakeel N,Elzehery R,Elkashef W,Eldars W

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES/BACKGROUND:The population of people who use drugs (PWUD) has the highest prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in Europe. PWUD are multimorbid patients who are difficult to integrate into existing healthcare systems. In our study, we evaluated the feasibility of providing HCV treatment within opio...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Brunner N,Senn O,Rosemann T,Falcato L,Bruggmann P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are highly prevalent in the general population, with significant symptom overlap, whereas the interaction between both remains poorly understood. We aim to identify the clinical and psychological factors that contribute toward the over...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Hsu CS,Liu TT,Wen SH,Wang CC,Yi CH,Chen JH,Lei WY,Orr WC,Fabio P,Chen CL

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Some people believe that chocolate and other foods or beverages may cause constipation. This study was undertaken to quantify the effect of potentially constipating foods and beverages on apparently healthy and constipated populations of German individuals. METHODS:A questionnaire asking for the effect of certain ...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Müller-Lissner SA,Kaatz V,Brandt W,Keller J,Layer P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate gallbladder function by use of cholescintigraphy in patients with acute cholecystitis before and after percutaneous gallbladder drainage. DESIGN:A cholescintigraphy was performed in 40 patients with acute cholecystitis before and after the performance of percutaneous gallbladder drainage. Duri...

journal_title：European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology

authors： Borly L,Stage JG,Grønvall S,Højgaard L

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00