Elevation of interleukin 6 levels in patients with chronic hepatitis due to hepatitis C virus.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Mac-2 Binding Protein Glycosylation Isomer (M2BPGi) is a novel fibrosis marker. We examined the ability of M2BPGi to predict liver fibrosis in patients with biliary atresia. METHODS:Sixty-four patients who underwent living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) were included [median age, 1.1 years (rang...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yamada N,Sanada Y,Tashiro M,Hirata Y,Okada N,Ihara Y,Urahashi T,Mizuta K

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical inactivity is a risk factor for the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). "Hybrid training", a training that involves both voluntary and electrical muscle contractions, causes beneficial alterations in muscles even after short durations of exercise. The aim of this study was to i...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kawaguchi T,Shiba N,Maeda T,Matsugaki T,Takano Y,Itou M,Sakata M,Taniguchi E,Nagata K,Sata M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute liver failure is a potentially fatal disease of various etiologies for which liver transplantation is the only known curative treatment. Although the decision-making on transplantation is largely dependent on the severity of liver injury (based on predicting a fatal outcome), a statistical analysis to ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Mawatari S,Moriuchi A,Ohba F,Kawano T,Oda K,Takikawa Y,Takikawa H,Ido A,Tsubouchi H

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It remains unknown whether Kupffer-phase images in Sonazoid-enhanced ultrasonography (US) can be used to predict hypervascularization of borderline lesions. Therefore, we aimed to clarify whether Kupffer-phase images in Sonazoid-enhanced ultrasonography can predict subsequent hypervascularization in hypovasc...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Inoue T,Hyodo T,Korenaga K,Murakami T,Imai Y,Higaki A,Suda T,Takano T,Miyoshi K,Koda M,Tanaka H,Iijima H,Ochi H,Hirooka M,Numata K,Kudo M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention of human diseases has become a major focus of biomedical investigators around the world. Our current screening and treatment regimens for colorectal cancer are not effective, as indicated by the fact that this disease is the second leading cause of death from cancer in the United States. Recently published ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： DuBois RN,Smalley WE

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The virologic impact of adding interferon to antiviral nucleoside therapy was studied in Japanese patients having perinatally transmitted hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype C. METHODS:Sixty-four patients including 41 positive for hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) were assigned to receive either (1) a combination ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yuki N,Nagaoka T,Nukui K,Omura M,Hikiji K,Kato M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed reports on the efficacy of clarithromycin in eradicating Helicobacter pylori. Reports on dual and 1-week triple therapy that included clarithromycin were analyzed to assess the eradication rates of H. pylori infection. Dual therapy with clarithromycin and a proton pump inhibitor achieved eradication rates ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Satoh K,Kimura K,Takimoto T,Kihira K,Taniguchi Y,Saifuku K

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infection with Helicobacter pylori has been associated with chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU). The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of H. pylori eradication in the treatment of patients with CIU. METHODS:Fifty patients with CIU (16 men and 34 women; age 25-75 years) and 100 sex- and age-ma...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Fukuda S,Shimoyama T,Umegaki N,Mikami T,Nakano H,Munakata A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67-year-old female was admitted with diarrhea. Preoperatively, we diagnosed intussusception due to malignant lymphoma in the ileocecal region by image and colonoscopic examinations. We resected the right hemicolon for the tumor, which was located mainly in the cecum, causing intussusception. The stenotic terminal il...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Matsushita M,Hajiro K,Kajiyama T,Ohana M,Konishi Y,Kusumi F,Matsubayashi Y,Sawami H,Narusawa H,Takahashi Y

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) is often selected to treat gastric varices caused by portal hypertension, data comparing BRTO and splenectomy with gastric devascularization (Sp + Dev) are limited. METHODS:From January 2009 to February 2018, 100 patients with gastric vari...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Oshita K,Ohira M,Honmyo N,Kobayashi T,Murakami E,Aikata H,Baba Y,Kawano R,Awai K,Chayama K,Ohdan H

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant methylation of CpG islands in promoter regions can permanently inactivate tumor-suppressor genes, as mutations and chromosomal abnormalities do. In gastric cancers, CDKN2A, CDH1, and MLH1 are inactivated more frequently by aberrant methylation than by mutations, and novel tumor-suppressor genes inactivated by...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ushijima T,Nakajima T,Maekita T

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High serum immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) levels and IgG4-positive plasma cell infiltration are characteristic of type 1 autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP). It is unclear whether innate immunity is a cause of type 1 AIP; the possible involvement of microbial infection has been suggested in its pathogenesis. To clarify ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Fukui Y,Uchida K,Sakaguchi Y,Fukui T,Nishio A,Shikata N,Sakaida N,Uemura Y,Satoi S,Okazaki K

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA) therapy for chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients has been reported to reduce the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development. However, survival rates and causes of death in CHB patients either treated or not treated with NA therapy are unclear. Therefore, we investi...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Tada T,Kumada T,Toyoda H,Kiriyama S,Tanikawa M,Hisanaga Y,Kanamori A,Kitabtake S,Ito T

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Once-daily, orally administered, co-formulated glecaprevir (NS3/4A protease inhibitor) and pibrentasvir (NS5A inhibitor) (G/P) demonstrated pangenotypic activity and high sustained virologic response (SVR) rates in studies outside Japan. Here we report safety and efficacy in a subset of Japanese patients wit...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kumada H,Watanabe T,Suzuki F,Ikeda K,Sato K,Toyoda H,Atsukawa M,Ido A,Takaki A,Enomoto N,Kato K,Alves K,Burroughs M,Redman R,Pugatch D,Pilot-Matias TJ,Krishnan P,Oberoi RK,Xie W,Chayama K

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk for lymph node metastasis and the prognostic significance of pedunculated-type T1 colorectal carcinomas (CRCs) require further study. We aimed to assess the validity of the 2014 Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum (JSCCR) guidelines based on long-term outcomes of pedunculated-type T1...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Asayama N,Oka S,Tanaka S,Nagata S,Furudoi A,Kuwai T,Onogawa S,Tamura T,Kanao H,Hiraga Y,Okanobu H,Kuwabara T,Kunihiro M,Mukai S,Goto E,Shimamoto F,Chayama K

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We recently reported the efficacy of indigo naturalis (IN) in patients with active ulcerative colitis (UC) in a randomized controlled trial (INDIGO study). However, few studies have been conducted to investigate whether IN is effective even in treatment-refractory cases, such as in those with steroid depende...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Naganuma M,Sugimoto S,Fukuda T,Mitsuyama K,Kobayashi T,Yoshimura N,Ohi H,Tanaka S,Andoh A,Ohmiya N,Saigusa K,Yamamoto T,Morohoshi Y,Ichikawa H,Matsuoka K,Hisamatsu T,Watanabe K,Mizuno S,Abe T,Suzuki Y,Kanai T,IN

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 27-year-old woman with a 9-year history of ulcerative colitis involving the entire colon was admitted to our hospital in August 1992 because of bloody stools and left lower abdominal pain. She had been treated with sulfasalazine since 1983 and the colitis had been clinically quiescent or mild for 7 years. She had al...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Seo M,Okada M,Osamura S,Hara S,Umeno T,Maeshiro K,Yamada Y,Yuh K

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the adverse effects of sulfasalazine in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease in Japan. In our first survey, adverse effects were observed in 52 out of 751 patients with ulcerative colitis (6.9%) and in 8 out of 221 patients with Crohn's disease (3.6%); i.e., such effects were observed in 60 out ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Nakajima H,Munakata A,Yoshida Y

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although it is less frequently encountered, mesenteric vein occlusion poses as important a problem as mesenteric artery occlusion. The energy metabolism of intestinal tissue during venous occlusion and reperfusion was studied. METHODS:Male Wistar rats were studied in four groups of 17 animals each. Intestin...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kimura M,Kataoka M,Kuwabara Y,Sato A,Sugiura M,Fujii Y

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two cirrhotic patients with gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) in whom chronic blood loss presented a major problem. Case 1, a 69-year-old man, had alcoholic liver cirrhosis, and case 2, a 75-year-old woman, had liver cirrhosis associated with hepatitis C virus. The patients required repeated blood trans...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yamada M,Nishimura D,Hoshino H,Katada N,Sano H,Kato K

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) of the liver is a rare benign lesion that probably reflects a local hyperplastic response of hepatocytes to a vascular abnormality. Currently, the natural history of the disease remains largely unknown. We present a patient with FNH of the liver who was followed up for 4 years. A 22-yea...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ohmoto K,Honda T,Hirokawa M,Mitsui Y,Iguchi Y,Kuboki M,Yamamoto S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extremely rare case of malignant schwannoma of the esophagus with lymph node metastasis is reported. A 49-year-old woman was found to have an abnormal shadow on a chest X-ray film taken during an annual checkup. Upper gastrointestinal series showed extrinsic pressure on the middle thoracic esophagus, without a muco...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Murase K,Hino A,Ozeki Y,Karagiri Y,Onitsuka A,Sugie S

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) is widely performed in patients with common bile duct stones (CBDS). However, the long-term outcomes of patients following ES have not been sufficiently elucidated. Impaired papillary function following ES may result in additional late complications. In contrast, endoscopic pap...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Doi S,Yasuda I,Mukai T,Iwashita T,Uemura S,Yamauchi T,Nakashima M,Adachi S,Shimizu M,Tomita E,Itoi T,Moriwaki H

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was treated successfully with an orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) followed by interferon therapy. The 36-year-old Japanese man was diagnosed as having liver cirrhosis in 1983. HCC was detected in 1991, and by 1994, ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Shibata M,Yanaga K,Morizane T,Yanagawa T,Hirakawa M,Ueno Y,Esquivel CO,Mitamura K

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence and prevalence of primary biliary cirrhosis show wide geographic differences. The frequency of this disease in Japan is lower than in Northern Europe. To elucidate the immunoreactivity of serum with enzymes of the 2-oxo-acid dehydrogenase complex (2-OADC) and the M2 mitochondrial antigenic complex in Jap...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Omagari K,Rowley MJ,Jois JA,Feeney SJ,Komatsu K,Maeda T,Onishi S,Yamazaki K,Suzuki K,Galperin C,Mackay IR

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is the key ultimate goal set in essentially all treatment guidelines. There has been solid evidence supporting the relationship between serum hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA level and risk of HCC. Antiviral treatment with o...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yip TC,Lai JC,Wong GL

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, a significant relationship between gastric cancer and Helicobacter pylori infection has been proven. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the actual conditions of H. pylori infection in Japanese teenagers. METHODS:The study subjects were students at a certain high school between 2007 and 200...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Akamatsu T,Ichikawa S,Okudaira S,Yokosawa S,Iwaya Y,Suga T,Ota H,Tanaka E

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Japan, nutritional therapy as both a primary and as a secondary treatment is widely used for Crohn's disease (CD). The rationale for its use is based on a variety of reasons. The first is its ability to induce remission and to ameliorate the activity of intestinal lesions in the short term by enteral (EN) or by par...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Matsui T,Sakurai T,Yao T

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 69-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with fever and abdominal pain in the epigastric region. Abdominal ultrasonography demonstrated a well-defined hypoechoic mass in the epigastric region with encasement of the left hepatic lobe and stomach. Computed tomography confirmed a low-density mass, 20 cm in diamet...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kaibori M,Kawaguchi Y,Yokoigawa N,Yanagida H,Takai S,Kwon AH,Uemura Y,Kamiyama Y

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perianal fistulae are frequently seen complications in Crohn's disease. Although surgical procedures such as Seton's method have been devised, many patients still suffer from fistulae that are resistant to conventional therapy. We administered oral adsorbent to a patient with disease Crohn's who had a complicated peri...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology

authors： Tsujikawa T,Araki Y,Makino J,Uda K,Ihara T,Sasaki M,Fujiyama Y,Bamba T

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00