Bacterial Infection in Patients with Cirrhosis: Don't Get Bugged to Death.

abstract：:We studied the natural history of ulcerative colitis (UC) by following 1116 patients in whom UC had been diagnosed or confirmed at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation between 1960 and 1983. Data before 1973 were obtained retrospectively. Criteria for inclusion in the study were: a diagnosis of UC confirmed by clinical, ra...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Farmer RG,Easley KA,Rankin GB

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cholangiocarcinoma is a devastating disease with a 2% 5-year survival if the disease has spread outside the liver. The enzyme aspartate beta-hydroxylase (ASPH) has been demonstrated to be highly expressed in cholangiocarcinoma but not in normal bile ducts and found to stimulate tumor cell migration. In addit...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Nagaoka K,Ogawa K,Ji C,Cao KY,Bai X,Mulla J,Cheng Z,Wands JR,Huang CK

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme oxygenase (HO)-1, the rate-limiting enzyme in heme degradation, is induced by oxidative stress and its major end product, bilirubin, is a potent physiological antioxidant. We studied the induction of HO-1 and bilirubin production in intestinal mucosa using a rat model of sepsis. E. coli lipopolysaccharide was adm...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Otani K,Shimizu S,Chijiiwa K,Morisaki T,Yamaguchi T,Yamaguchi K,Kuroki S,Tanaka M

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential effect of recombinant human interleukin-11 (rhIL-11) on trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNB)-induced colitis was investigated in rats. Intrarectal TNB (40 mg in 0.25 ml 40% ethanol) produced significant ulcerative colitis. The lesions were most severe at three days after TNB instillation, and then decline...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Qiu BS,Pfeiffer CJ,Keith JC Jr

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimony electrodes are clinically useful because of their low cost and simple construction; they have no glass to break. There is only a few hundred ohms resistance between an antimony pH electrode and the reference electrode so that the voltage generated can be recorded with simple low-impedance recorders linked to ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Opekun AR,Smith JL,Graham DY

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A classification of gastrointestinal motility disorders is offered based upon the type of disorder in transit (delay or acceleration), and the region of the gastrointestinal tract affected. Specific abnormalities of myoelectrical patterns are identified when possible and related to disturbances in transit in the stoma...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Vantrappen G,Janssens J,Coremans G,Jian R

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study reports the results of intravenous cyclosporine in 32 patients with refractory and/or severe attacks of ulcerative colitis (UC). Twenty of 32 patients responded to intravenous cyclosporine; cyclosporine was clinically effective and improved colonic lesions. However, one colonic perforation and one po...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Carbonnel F,Boruchowicz A,Duclos B,Soulé JC,Lerebours E,Lémann M,Belaïche J,Colombel JF,Cosnes J,Gendre JP

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence in the esophagus of three distinct entities--Barrett's mucosa, Crohn's disease, and adenocarcinoma--is a very rare finding. In a 60-year-old man with a long history of heartburn and recently developed dysphagia, narrowing of the distal esophagus was found to be related to the presence of Barrett's mucosa....

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Delpre G,Mor C,Avidor I,Gutman H,Leisser A,Kott I,Kadish U

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro antioxidant capacity of sulfasalazine (SASP), its metabolites (SP, 5-ASA), and olsalazine (OAZ), was studied by evaluating their effects on superoxide (O2-.) production. Assay systems were the xanthine-xanthine oxidase (X/XOD) reaction and phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)-activated polymorphonuclear leukoc...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Gionchetti P,Guarnieri C,Campieri M,Belluzzi A,Brignola C,Iannone P,Miglioli M,Barbara L

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lafutidine, a histamine H2-receptor antagonist, exhibits gastric mucosal protective action mediated by capsaicin-sensitive afferent neurons, in addition to a potent antisecretory effect. In this study we examined the effect of lafutidine on dextran sulfate Na (DSS)-induced ulcerative colitis in rats, in relation to ca...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Okayama M,Tsubouchi R,Kato S,Takeuchi K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occult gastrointestinal bleeding occurs in 8-30% of marathon runners. We hypothesized that cimetidine would decrease bleeding by reducing acid-mediated injury and conducted a blinded, placebo-controlled prospective trial to determine the impact of cimetidine on gastrointestinal symptoms and bleeding during a marathon....

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Moses FM,Baska RS,Peura DA,Deuster PA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of ecabet sodium (ecabet), 12-sulfodehydroabietic acid monosodium salt, on gastric mucin biosynthesis in rat antrum were compared with those in the corpus. Intragastric administration of ecabet significantly increased [3H]glucosamine incorporation into antral mucin as well as into corpus mucin during five ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Ichikawa T,Ishihara K,Hayashida H,Hiruma H,Saigenji K,Hotta K

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the onset of malignant and nonmalignant complications in a cohort of celiac disease (CD) patients under gluten-free diet (GFD). Five hundred and forty-nine CD patients were retrospectively assessed. Two hundred and fifty-one (45.7%) showed classical, 262 (47.7%) subclinical, and 36 (6.6%) silent form of CD...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Tursi A,Elisei W,Giorgetti GM,Brandimarte G,Aiello F

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who had a cecostomy because of a complicated appendicitis at the age of 17 functioned with an excluded colon for 47 years. He was then hospitalized for diverticulitis and left pericolic abscess. After treatment of the abscess by left segmental colectomy and reanastomosis, the cecostomy was closed. Two years ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Desechalliers JP,Galmiche JP,Denis P,Teniere P,Testart J,Colin R

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a young woman with Takayasu's arteritis, standard roentgenographic studies suggested a diagnosis of Crohn's ileocolitis. Mesenteric angiography was performed and revealed specific abnormalities diagnostic of Crohn's disease, namely, the zoning sign in the cecum with a hypervascular inner layer and a hypovascular ou...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Friedman CJ,Tegtmeyer CJ

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Restoring normal fecal flora through intestinal microbiota transplantation (IMT) was successful in curing recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). However, only a few cases have been reported of IMT being utilized for the treatment of severe or fulminant CDI. AIM:Is IMT a simple and effective treatm...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Zainah H,Hassan M,Shiekh-Sroujieh L,Hassan S,Alangaden G,Ramesh M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a breath test to measure solid gastric emptying using a standardized scrambled egg test meal (250 kcal) labeled with [14C]octanoic acid or [13C]octanoic acid. In vitro incubation studies showed that octanoic acid is a reliable marker of the solid phase. The breath test was validated in 36 subjects by...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Maes BD,Ghoos YF,Rutgeerts PJ,Hiele MI,Geypens B,Vantrappen G

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile (CD) is one of the most common causes of diarrhea in solid organ transplantation (SOT). Between 1996 and 2005, a total of 2474 solid organ transplants were performed at our institution, of which 43 patients developed CD-associated diarrhea. There were 3 lung, 3 heart, 20 liver, 8 kidney-pancreas,...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Stelzmueller I,Goegele H,Biebl M,Wiesmayr S,Berger N,Tabarelli W,Ruttmann E,Albright J,Margreiter R,Fille M,Bonatti H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diverticulosis, a prevalent condition at screening colonoscopy, has been associated with colorectal cancers that develop after a clearing colonoscopy, or interval cancers. AIMS:To quantify the overall risk of diverticulosis in the development of interval cancers and examine this association in relevant subg...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Cooper GS,Xu F,Schluchter MD,Koroukian SM,Barnholtz Sloan JS

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food allergy, a commonly increasing problem worldwide, defined as an adverse immune response to food. A variety of immune-related effector cells such as mast cells, eosinophils, neutrophils, and T cells are involved in food-related allergic responses categorized as IgE mediated, non-IgE mediated, and mixed (IgE and no...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Manohar M,Verma AK,Upparahalli Venkateshaiah S,Goyal H,Mishra A

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Guidelines recommend routine invasive screening for Helicobacter pylori in patients with peptic ulcer hemorrhage (PUH). However, compliance with screening remains suboptimal. The aim of this study was to determine if a simplified approach based on noninvasive screening is cost effective in PUH. RESULTS:In the ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Atreja A,Fu AZ,Sanaka MR,Vargo JJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed for the evaluation of infectious esophagitis in 19 consecutive subjects evaluated prospectively before orthotopic liver transplantation (OLTx), in a separate group of 27 subjects post-OLTx, and in 21 subjects following orthotopic renal transplantation (ORTx). None of the ...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Alexander JA,Brouillette DE,Chien MC,Yoo YK,Tarter RE,Gavaler JS,Van Thiel DH

更新日期：1988-09-01 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：:Ceramide plays an important role in regulating cell proliferation and apoptosis. Recent studies indicate that generation of ceramide in the intestine from sphingomyelin hydrolysis may be implicated in colon cancer development. The enzymes that catalyze the further hydrolysis of ceramide in the intestine have, however,...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Lundgren P,Nilsson A,Duan RD

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) is a rare but severe dermatological condition that typically occurs after the ingestion of medications such as nonsteroidal drugs, antibiotics, and anticonvulsants. Extracutaneous manifestations of the syndrome can occur and may involve the conjunctiva, trachea, buccal mucosa, gastrointe...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Morelli MS,O'Brien FX

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:Diseases of the ileocecal junction are mostly ulcerative. The aim of this study was to investigate the value of colonoscopy on the diagnosis of the causes of ileocecal ulcer. Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and endoscopic and histopathologic features of 52 hospitalized cases of ileocecal ulcer were retrospectively...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Cai J,Li F,Zhou W,Luo HS

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein and glycolipid constituents were examined in purified microvillus and basolateral membranes isolated from rat small intestinal epithelial cells. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that the molecular weights of most of the major proteins from microvillus membranes were over 100 kD, whereas the m...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Morita A,Siddiqui B,Erickson RH,Kim YS

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated how reflux-induced esophagitis affects the smooth muscle reactivity of the esophageal body. Two different esophagitis models were used: acid gastric and mixed duodenogastric reflux. All test animals apart from the controls developed gross and histologic evidence of esophagitis. Contracti...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Tugay M,Yildiz F,Utkan T,Müezzinoğlu B,Erden F,Gacar N,Ulak G

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data regarding early atherosclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease are limited and conflicting results are present. AIMS:The purpose of this study was to evaluate serological and sonographical evidence of subclinical vascular involvement in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. METHODS:Thirty-nine pat...

journal_title：Digestive diseases and sciences

authors： Kayahan H,Sari I,Cullu N,Yuksel F,Demir S,Akarsu M,Goktay Y,Unsal B,Akpinar H

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00