Case report: Colonic duplication: a rare cause of obstruction.

abstract：:Artificial liver systems are used to bridge between transplantation or to allow a patient's liver to recover. They are used in patients with acute liver failure (ALF) and acute-on-chronic liver failure. There are five artificial systems currently in use: molecular adsorbent recirculating system (MARS), single-pass alb...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Tandon R,Froghi S

更新日期：2020-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:There is scanty data on the occurrence of celiac disease in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus in South Asia. Our aim was to study the prevalence and clinical profile of celiac disease in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus in a tertiary care referral centre in north India. METHODS:Consecutiv...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Bhadada SK,Kochhar R,Bhansali A,Dutta U,Kumar PR,Poornachandra KS,Vaiphei K,Nain CK,Singh K

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Sniff test is a common method before unsedated transnasal esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (UT-EGD) to select a nostril insertion site. Yet there is no objective method to select a more specific meatus insertion tract for anesthesia and insertion. We devised an endoscopic meatus scoring scale by anterior...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Hu CT,Lei WY,Lin JS,Hung JS

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three clinicopathological phases of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are identified. First, is immune tolerance of HBV. High levels of viraemia are associated with normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels and minimal histological lesions. More than 30-40% of hepatocytes have the hepatitis B core antigen (...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Chu CM,Liaw YF

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:An endoscopic clip device was newly designed to accomplish the closure of large gastrointestinal defects. The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility and efficacy of this device in an ex vivo experimental setting. METHODS:This prospective study was conducted in porcine colons (n = 5). A l...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Wang ZJ,Li SY,Zhang YH,Chen Y,Zhang PP,Li ZS,Bai Y,Wang D

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Second-generation argon plasma coagulation (APC; APC 2/VIO APC) with its modes 'forced', 'pulsed', and 'precise' is a further development of the ICC/APC 300 system (first-generation APC). Until now, only limited data has existed on the use of APC 2. METHODS:Fundamental data on the characteristics of...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Manner H,Enderle MD,Pech O,May A,Plum N,Riemann JF,Ell C,Eickhoff A

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationship between visceral adiposity and the incidence of functional dyspepsia (FD) has not yet been studied. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the association between visceral adiposity and the risk of FD. METHODS:This is a case-control study that compares the abdominal adipose tissue ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Jung JG,Yang JN,Lee CG,Choi SH,Kwack WG,Lee JH,Kang HW

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Steering Committee for the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in Asia recently conducted a survey of primary-care physicians in Asia, which revealed that many physicians administer boosters in their clinical practice and that there is considerable variation and uncertainty among physicians regarding thi...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： John TJ,Cooksley G,Steering Committee for the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in Asia.

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Hyperphosphatemia has been implicated in the development and treatment of various cancers. However, whether it can be used as a direct prognostic marker of colorectal cancer (CRC) has remained unexplored. Given new insights into the importance of hyperphosphatemia in CRC, we sought to evaluate the as...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Ye Z,Palazzo JP,Lin L,Lai Y,Guiles F,Myers RE,Han J,Xing J,Yang H

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:The role of octamer-binding transcription factor 4 (Oct4) has been implicated in the clinical prognosis of various kinds of digestive system cancers, but the results remain controversial. The purpose of this meta-analysis is to assess the potential role of Oct4 as a prognostic marker in digestive sys...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Chen Z,Zhang L,Zhu Q,Wang X,Wu J,Wang X

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flexible sigmoidoscopy has been recommended as a screening method to reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer in asymptomatic, average-risk subjects through the early detection and removal of polyps. However, the association between distal and proximal colonic neoplasia and, hence, the requirement for colonoscopic fo...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Collett JA,Platell C,Fletcher DR,Aquilia S,Olynyk JK

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori infection has regional variation. Effect of eradication of H. pylori on symptoms of functional dyspepsia is uncertain, and the data in Asian scenario are scanty. The study aimed to see H. pylori positivity rate in patients of functional dyspepsia and the effect of ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Sodhi JS,Javid G,Zargar SA,Tufail S,Shah A,Khan BA,Yattoo GN,Gulzar GM,Khan MA,Lone MI,Saif Ru,Parveen S,Shoukat A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Because of its long duration, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) causes high use of health services and high lifetime costs for medical care. The aim of the present study was to measure the costs of outpatient care in patients with IBD in a German University Hospital and to identify potentially relevan...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Ebinger M,Leidl R,Thomas S,Von Tirpitz C,Reinshagen M,Adler G,Konig HH

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Korean College of Helicobacter and Upper Gastrointestinal Research first developed guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection in 1998, and revised guidelines were proposed in 2009 by the same group. Although the revised guidelines were based on a comprehensive review of...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Kim SG,Jung HK,Lee HL,Jang JY,Lee H,Kim CG,Shin WG,Shin ES,Lee YC,Korean College of Helicobacter and Upper Gastrointestinal Research.

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection rapidly decreasing in Japan, endoscopic findings and dyspeptic symptoms need to be re-evaluated. METHODS:In a health check-up program, endoscopy was performed on 530 young Japanese subjects (371 men and 159 women) born in the 1970s. Helicobact...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Shimatani T,Inoue M,Iwamoto K,Hyogo H,Yokozaki M,Saeki T,Tazuma S,Horikawa Y

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:To evaluate and compare laparoscopic splenectomy and partial splenic embolization as supportive intervention for cirrhotic patients with hypersplenism to overcome peripheral cytopenia before the initiation of and during interferon therapy or anticancer therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma. METHODS:...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Tomikawa M,Akahoshi T,Sugimachi K,Ikeda Y,Yoshida K,Tanabe Y,Kawanaka H,Takenaka K,Hashizume M,Maehara Y

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Terlipressin has been shown to be effective in the management of hepatorenal syndrome. However, how terlipressin exerts its effect on the renal artery is unknown. The aim of the present study was to assess the effects of terlipressin on systemic, hepatic and renal hemodynamics in cirrhosis. METHODS:...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Narahara Y,Kanazawa H,Taki Y,Kimura Y,Atsukawa M,Katakura T,Kidokoro H,Harimoto H,Fukuda T,Matsushita Y,Nakatsuka K,Sakamoto C

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:One of the main concerns related to peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is postoperative gastroesophageal reflux (GER). The two penetrating vessels (TPVs) that are found at the boundary between the circular and oblique muscles in the posterior cardia wall have been suggested to be a good indicator of t...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Tanaka S,Toyonaga T,Kawara F,Watanabe D,Hoshi N,Abe H,Ariyoshi R,Ohara Y,Takao T,Morita Y,Umegaki E,Kodama Y

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Endoscopic papillary balloon dilation (EPBD) has been advocated as an alternative therapy to endoscopic sphincterotomy for bile duct stones. However, studies have shown that EPBD may increase the risk for pancreatitis. Pancreatitis after EPBD is believed to be related to papillary damage after balloo...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Tsujino T,Kawabe T,Isayama H,Sasaki T,Kogure H,Togawa O,Arizumi T,Ito Y,Matsubara S,Yamamoto N,Nakai Y,Sasahira N,Hirano K,Toda N,Komatsu Y,Tada M,Yoshida H,Omata M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preferred treatment for patients with chronic hepatitis C, either treatment-naive, relapsers or nonresponders to IFN monotherapy, is now IFN-ribavirin combination treatment. The adverse effects of IFN are well established and familiar to hepatologists all over the world. More than 25,000 patients worldwide have be...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Chutaputti A

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A nitroxide radical, 4-hydroxyl-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-oxyl (TEMPOL), is directly reduced to hydroxylamine by ascorbic acid (AsA). Ascorbic acid is oxidized to dehydroascorbic acid (DHA) by ascorbic acid oxidase (AAOx), and DHA is reduced to AsA by glutathione (GSH). In the present study, in vivo and...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Tada M,Yokoyama H,Ito O,Ohya H,Ogata T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The immunogenetic basis of autoimmune diseases has become more and more evident. We have analyzed the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) associations with type-1 autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) among patients from western India. METHODS:In 20 patients and 120 healthy controls, polymerase chain reaction ampli...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Shankarkumar U,Amarapurkar DN,Kankonkar S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Childhood-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is characterized by extensive intestinal involvement and rapid early progression. Infliximab (IFX), cyclosporin (CYA), and tacrolimus (FK506) are increasingly used to treat pediatric IBD; however, their long-term effects and adverse events have not bee...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Hosoi K,Ohtsuka Y,Fujii T,Kudo T,Matsunaga N,Tomomasa T,Tajiri H,Kunisaki R,Ishige T,Yamada H,Arai K,Yoden A,Ushijima K,Aomatsu T,Nagata S,Uchida K,Takeuchi K,Shimizu T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical trials of probiotic treatment for Crohn's disease (CD) have yielded conflicting results. This study assessed the clinical usefulness of combined probiotic and prebiotic therapy in the treatment of active CD. METHOD:Ten active CD outpatients without history of operation for CD were enrolled. Their m...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Fujimori S,Tatsuguchi A,Gudis K,Kishida T,Mitsui K,Ehara A,Kobayashi T,Sekita Y,Seo T,Sakamoto C

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) and the recovery of ALC after treatment have been identified as a prognostic biomarker for several malignancies. In this study, we aimed to investigate the prognostic role of peritransplant ALC and ALC recovery after liver transplantation (LT) in hepatocellular carcin...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Zheng Z,Lin B,Zhang J,Yang Z,Xie H,Zhou L,Zhang M,Zheng S

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Fully covered self-expandable metal stents (FCSEMS) may be better than plastic stents (PS) for preoperative biliary drainage (PBD) to relieve cholangitis or jaundice for resectable malignant biliary obstruction (MBO). However, modification of current FCSEMS designed originally for nonresectable MBO i...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Lee HW,Moon JH,Lee YN,Chung JC,Lee TH,Choi MH,Cha SW,Cho YD,Park SH

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:There are few studies investigating the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in current and former drug users. With this in mind, we sought to evaluate the antiviral efficacy of interferon alpha-2b (IFN alpha-2b) or pegylated-interferon alpha-2b (PEG-IFN alpha-2b) and ribavirin (RBV) in inj...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Grebely J,Raffa JD,Meagher C,Duncan F,Genoway KA,Khara M,McLean M,Mead A,Viljoen M,DeVlaming S,Fraser C,Conway B

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:A high yield of biopsy is mandatory to perform molecular genetic research with endoscopically obtained gastric cancer tissues. We evaluated whether probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) can increase the yield of endoscopic biopsy for gastric cancer compared with white light endoscopy (WLE)...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Park CH,Kim H,Jo JH,Hahn KY,Yoon JH,Kim SY,Lee YC,Noh SH,Chung HC,Lee SK

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:The present study was aimed to evaluate the hepatic zonation of multidrug resistance-associated protein 2 (mrp2), an important drug transporter, and its potential changes during the induction of its expression by known inducer, dexamethasone (DEX). METHODS:The hepatic expression of mrp2 was studied ...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Micuda S,Fuksa L,Brcakova E,Osterreicher J,Cermanova J,Cibicek N,Mokry J,Staud F,Martinkova J

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:The present study was designed to investigate the expression of and humoral response against NY-ESO-1 in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and to analyze the relationship between expression of NY-ESO-1 mRNA and clinicopathological features. METHODS:NY-ESO-1 mRNA and protein expression in surgic...

journal_title：Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

authors： Nakamura S,Nouso K,Noguchi Y,Higashi T,Ono T,Jungbluth A,Chen YT,Old LJ,Nakayama E,Shiratori Y

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00