Review article: functional dyspepsia--should treatment be targeted on disturbed physiology?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little data are available regarding the effectiveness and associated microbiome changes of faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in children, especially in those with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with presumed underlying dysbiosis. AIM:To investigate C. diffic...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Hourigan SK,Chen LA,Grigoryan Z,Laroche G,Weidner M,Sears CL,Oliva-Hemker M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lymphocytic gastritis (LG) is an uncommon entity with varying symptoms and endoscopic appearances. This condition, as well as two forms of H. pylori-negative gastritis [chronic active gastritis (CAG) and chronic inactive gastritis (CIG)], appears to be more common in patients with coeliac disease (CD) based ...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Lebwohl B,Green PH,Genta RM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Morphological, haemodynamic and clinical stages of cirrhosis have been proposed, although no definite staging system is yet accepted for clinical practice. AIM:To investigate whether clinical complications of cirrhosis may define different prognostic disease stages. METHODS:Analysis of the database from a ...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： D'Amico G,Pasta L,Morabito A,D'Amico M,Caltagirone M,Malizia G,Tinè F,Giannuoli G,Traina M,Vizzini G,Politi F,Luca A,Virdone R,Licata A,Pagliaro L

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CXC chemokines such as interleukin (IL)-8 are neutrophil chemoattractants, the levels of which increase in Helicobacter pylori-infected gastric mucosa. Many investigators have focused on the chemotactic aspects of IL-8: however, CXC chemokines are also reported to have angiogenic activity and to serve as rem...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Suzuki H,Mori M,Seto K,Shibata F,Nagahashi S,Kawaguchi C,Suzuki M,Matsui H,Watanabe K,Miura S,Ishii H

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the past decade, a number of population-based studies have examined the prevalence of coeliac disease in individuals with type 1 diabetes but prevalences have differed considerably. AIM:To examine the prevalence of coeliac disease in individuals with type 1 diabetes. METHODS:A systematic review of Engli...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Elfström P,Sundström J,Ludvigsson JF

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with chronic hepatitis C virus and advanced fibrosis or cirrhosis are at risk for disease progression and hepatic decompensation. AIM:To determine the effects on hepatic histology of treatment with peginterferon alfa-2a (90 or 180 mug/week) or interferon alfa-2a (3 million units three times weekly)...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Everson GT,Balart L,Lee SS,Reindollar RW,Shiffman ML,Minuk GY,Pockros PJ,Govindarajan S,Lentz E,Heathcote EJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite implementation of screening and surveillance strategies, a significantly large number of patients with Barrett's oesophagus remain undiagnosed. In those who are identified, the management options include acid reduction therapies with proton pump inhibitors or anti-reflux surgery. Endoscopic ablative therapies ...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Jankowski J,Sharma P

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health-related quality of life (HRQL) is often diminished in patients with ulcerative colitis. AIM:To evaluate the effects of vedolizumab on HRQL in patients with ulcerative colitis. METHODS:Using maintenance phase data from the GEMINI 1 study, an analysis of covariance model was used to calculate mean dif...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Feagan BG,Patel H,Colombel JF,Rubin DT,James A,Mody R,Lasch K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cotton top tamarin is a unique model of human ulcerative colitis. This disease is clinically and histologically similar. It is also complicated in some cases by colon cancer. The cotton top tamarin provides an appropriate animal model for assessing new treatments in inflammatory bowel disease. ...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Warren BF

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanism by which dietary pepper causes dyspepsia and epigastric pain is poorly understood, as is the ability of bismuth subsalicylate (BSS) to relieve these symptoms. AIM:To investigate the ability of black pepper, red pepper and BSS to affect gastric surface hydrophobicity and induce/relieve visceral...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Lichtenberger LM,Romero JJ,Carryl OR,Illich PA,Walters ET

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of cholesterol gallstones is now recognized as a multifactorial process, including saturation of bile with cholesterol, destabilization of bile leading to cholesterol crystals and hypomotility permitting crystal growth, and agglomeration and retention of microstones which then grow to macroscopic gall...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Pauletzki J,Paumgartner G

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous data have indicated low bone formation as a mechanism of osteoporosis in inflammatory bowel disease. Fluoride can stimulate bone formation. AIM:To assess the effect of fluoride supplementation on lumbar spine bone mineral density in osteoporotic patients with inflammatory bowel disease treated in p...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Abitbol V,Mary JY,Roux C,Soulé JC,Belaiche J,Dupas JL,Gendre JP,Lerebours E,Chaussade S,Groupe D'etudes Thérapeutiques des Affections Inflammatoires Digestives (GETAID).

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The reflux disease questionnaire (RDQ) is a short, patient-completed instrument. AIMS:To investigate the psychometric characteristics of the RDQ in patients with heartburn-predominant (HB) and non-heartburn predominant (NHB) dyspepsia. METHODS:HB (n = 388) and NHB (n = 733) patients were randomized to esom...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： van Zanten SV,Armstrong D,Barkun A,Junghard O,White RJ,Wiklund IK

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological, experimental, and clinical studies have demonstrated that colon carcinogenesis may be prevented by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Although controversy remains, recent studies, including ours, have revealed that NSAIDs suppress colon carcinogenesis at the adenoma stage where cyclooxygen...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Ota S,Bamba H,Kato A,Kawamoto C,Yoshida Y,Fujiwara K

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mesalazine suppositories are recommended and widely used as the standard therapy in induction and maintenance of remission for proctitis. AIM:To evaluate the efficacy of mesalazine suppositories in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) and rectal inflammation; and in patient groups categorised by the extent...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Watanabe M,Nishino H,Sameshima Y,Ota A,Nakamura S,Hibi T

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of adequate nutrition is of obvious importance in the management of patients with Crohn's disease. Exclusive parenteral nutrition can achieve high rates of remission, but this is not usually necessary since exclusive elemental and polymeric enteral regimes can yield similarly good results. Comparison of ex...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Forbes A

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the incidence of death in patients diagnosed with Crohn's disease in Cardiff over 20 years ago. METHODS:The Cardiff database of patients with Crohn's disease contains data on all patients diagnosed there since 1934. Patients (394) diagnosed before 1 January 1985 were traced and their mortality statu...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Canavan C,Abrams KR,Hawthorne B,Mayberry JF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnostic value of ascitic cholesterol in the differential diagnosis of ascites is controversial. AIM:To investigate the diagnostic performance of ascitic cholesterol in the differential diagnosis of ascites. METHODS:Consecutive patients with new-onset ascites were enrolled prospectively. The pertinen...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Du L,Zhu S,Lu Z,Xu T,Bai T,Xu D,Wei X,Li J,Xu K,Ye J,Hou X,Song Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease generally has a benign course; however, patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) may progress to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Currently, there is a lack of consensus about optimal NASH treatment. AIM:To assess the efficacy of insulin-sensitizing agents ...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Rakoski MO,Singal AG,Rogers MA,Conjeevaram H

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low-dose thiopurine-allopurinol (LDTA) combination therapy is a commonly applied optimisation strategy in IBD patients with a skewed thiopurine metabolism. AIM:To assess continued LDTA maintenance treatment at annual intervals and explore risk factors for treatment cessation METHODS: Adult IBD patients trea...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Kreijne JE,de Veer RC,de Boer NK,Dijkstra G,West R,Moorsel SAW,de Jong DJ,van der Woude CJ,de Vries AC,of the Dutch Initiative on Crohn, Colitis (ICC).

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ephedrine, a non-selective adrenoreceptor agonist, and yohimbine, a selective alpha 2-adrenolytic drug, on gastric emptying of a radiolabelled solid meal was examined in groups of 8 (all women) and 15 (4 men and 11 women) obese patients, respectively. Patients were given orally, double-blind in random or...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Jonderko K,Kucio C

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Locally acquired hepatitis E is an emerging infection in developed countries and can be misdiagnosed as drug-induced liver injury. AIM:To study the role of hepatitis E virus (HEV) testing in drug-induced liver injury. METHODS:Retrospective review of a cohort of patients with suspected drug-induced liver in...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Dalton HR,Fellows HJ,Stableforth W,Joseph M,Thurairajah PH,Warshow U,Hazeldine S,Remnarace R,Ijaz S,Hussaini SH,Bendall RP

更新日期：2007-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Twice-daily dosing is increasingly used to improve gastric acid control, although not all proton-pump inhibitors are more effective when doses are split. Standard dose esomeprazole provides better gastric acid control than other standard dose proton-pump inhibitors. AIMS:To compare the effect of standard do...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Hammer J,Schmidt B

更新日期：2004-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the era of expanding medical therapy for ulcerative colitis, surgery is still a very valid option in those patients, where medicine is not able to control symptoms, both in the acute and chronic stages, and also for those at risk of developing a cancer. The ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) will, for the vast maj...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Oresland T

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The herbal treatment with myrrh, dry extract of chamomile flowers and coffee charcoal has anti-inflammatory and antidiarrhoeal potential and might benefit patients with UC. Aminosalicylates are used as standard treatment for maintaining remission in ulcerative colitis (UC). AIM:To compare the efficacy of th...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Langhorst J,Varnhagen I,Schneider SB,Albrecht U,Rueffer A,Stange R,Michalsen A,Dobos GJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral tacrolimus, approved for the prophylaxis of organ rejection in liver or kidney transplants, has been reported to be effective in anecdotal cases of refractory inflammatory bowel disease. AIM:To evaluate the usefulness of low-dose oral tacrolimus in refractory inflammatory bowel disease. METHODS:Thirty...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Baumgart DC,Wiedenmann B,Dignass AU

更新日期：2003-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rs738409 GG variant in patatin-like phospholipase 3 (PNPLA3) is associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and disease severity. However, it remains unclear if it contributes to the development of NAFLD through affecting dietary pattern. AIM:To examine the association among PNPLA3 gene po...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Shen J,Wong GL,Chan HL,Chan HY,Yeung DK,Chan RS,Chim AM,Chan AW,Choi PC,Woo J,Chu WC,Wong VW

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is expected to become a leading aetiology of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)-related mortality in the United States. HCC treatments with curative intent (OLT, orthotopic liver transplantation; resection; RFA, radiofrequency ablation) can improve survival in carefully ...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Wong CR,Njei B,Nguyen MH,Nguyen A,Lim JK

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the absorption and urinary excretion of tripotassium dicitrato bismuthate during a treatment course of 4 weeks in 7 patients with normal renal function (creatinine clearance 115 +/- 29 ml/min; mean +/- S.D.), in 7 patients with impaired renal function (creatinine clearance = 34 +/- 19 ml/min) and ...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Treiber G,Gladziwa U,Ittel TH,Walker S,Schweinsberg F,Klotz U

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Direct-acting anti-virals (DAA) are safe, effective treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV). Suboptimal linkage to specialists and access to DAAs are the leading barriers to treatment; however, data are limited. AIM:To determine predictors of follow-up, receipt of DAAs, and reasons for the lack thereof. METHO...

journal_title：Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

authors： Lin M,Kramer J,White D,Cao Y,Tavakoli-Tabasi S,Madu S,Smith D,Asch SM,El-Serag HB,Kanwal F

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00