Case report of cryptogenic multifocal ulcerous stenosing enteritis (CMUSE): a rare disease may contribute to endoscopy-capsule retention in the small intestine.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Escherichia coli (E. coli), particularly E. coli sequence type ST131, is becoming a global concern. Commensal bacteria, an important reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes, facilitate the spread of such genes to pathogenic bacterial strains. The objective of the s...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Huang IF,Lee WY,Wang JL,Hung CH,Hu HH,Hung WY,Hung YJ,Chen WC,Shen YT,Cheng MF

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pancreatic cancer has significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Good prognosis relies on an early diagnosis. The purpose of this study was to develop techniques for identifying cancer biomarkers in the serum of patients with pancreatic cancer. METHODS:Serum samples from five individuals with pancreatic...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Rong Y,Jin D,Hou C,Hu J,Wu W,Ni X,Wang D,Lou W

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gastric microbiota has recently been implicated in the causation of organic/structural gastroduodenal diseases (gastric and duodenal ulcers, gastric cancer) in patients with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. We aimed to ascertain, in patients harbouring H. pylori, the role of the gastric microbi...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Pereira V,Abraham P,Nallapeta S,Shetty A

更新日期：2018-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autoimmune hepatitis causes chronic hepatitis and often leads to cirrhosis and death without treatment. We wanted to see if having access to primary care or insurance prior to diagnosis is associated with better outcomes for patients in an urban, public hospital with mostly socioeconomically disadvantaged Hi...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Kim D,Eshtiaghpour D,Alpern J,Datta A,Eysselein VE,Yee HF

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diet may play a role in disease status in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. We tested whether the inflammatory potential of diet, based on a summation of pro- and anti-inflammatory nutrients, is associated with disease activity in patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. METHODS:Partici...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Lamers CR,de Roos NM,Witteman BJM

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) affect psychological, family, social and professional dimensions of patients' life, leading to disability which is essential to quantify as part of Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) newly included in the targets to reach in IBD patients. Up to now, the IBD-Disability Index (I...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Le Berre C,Bourreille A,Flamant M,Bouguen G,Siproudhis L,Dewitte M,Dib N,Cesbron-Metivier E,Goronflot T,Hanf M,Gourraud PA,Kerdreux E,Poinas A,Trang-Poisson C

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Liver fibrosis is the result of continuous liver injury stemming from different etiological factors. Bile duct injury induces an altered expression of TGF-beta, which has an important role in liver fibrosis because this cytokine induces the expression of target genes such as collagens, PAI-1, TIMPs, and othe...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： del Pilar Alatorre-Carranza M,Miranda-Díaz A,Yañez-Sánchez I,Pizano-Martínez O,Hermosillo-Sandoval JM,Vázquez-Del Mercado M,Hernández-Hoyos S,Martínez-Abundis R,Fafutis-Morris M,Segura-Ortega J,Delgado-Rizo V

更新日期：2009-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (RLH) of the liver is very rarely reported, and we encountered two cases of RLH of the liver in a patient with colon cancer. CASE PRESENTATION:In the first case, a 77-year-old woman was admitted for the surgical removal of a ascending colon cancer. A hepatic tumor in the left l...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Takahashi H,Sawai H,Matsuo Y,Funahashi H,Satoh M,Okada Y,Inagaki H,Takeyama H,Manabe T

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastric diseases are a worldwide problem in modern society, as reported in the USA, in the range of 0.5-2 episodes/year/person and an incidence of 5-100 episodes/1000/week according to seasons and age. There is convincing evidence that oxidative stress is involved in the pathogenesis of acute gastric injury....

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Uberti F,Bardelli C,Morsanuto V,Ghirlanda S,Molinari C

更新日期：2016-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Korean National Cancer Screening Program has been providing annual fecal immunochemical test for colorectal cancer (CRC) to adults aged 50 years and older since 2004. The Korean Colonoscopy Screening Pilot Study was developed to evaluate the effectiveness of colonoscopy screening for CRC incidence and mo...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Park B,Jun JK,Kim BC,Choi KS,Suh M,Expert Advisory Committee.,Monitoring Committee.,Center for Korean Colonoscopy Screening Pilot Study.,Research Team on the Protocol Development of Pilot study.

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:From the morphological appearance, it was impossible to distinguish terminal portal venules from small lymphatic vessels in the portal tract even using histochemical microscopic techniques. Recently, D2-40 was found to be expressed at a high level in lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs). This study was underta...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Yokomori H,Oda M,Kaneko F,Kawachi S,Tanabe M,Yoshimura K,Kitagawa Y,Hibi T

更新日期：2010-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is one of the most commonly used methods in the assessment of cognitive mental status. MMSE has been used in hepatology but its usefulness in the evaluation of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) has never been properly assessed. The aim of the study was to investigate the value ...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Koziarska D,Wunsch E,Milkiewicz M,Wójcicki M,Nowacki P,Milkiewicz P

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatic expression of Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) is associated with Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and development of Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Hepatic SHH detection increases with the diagnosis of NASH. This pilot study was designed to confirm that staining for SHH is useful in NASH diagnos...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Estep M,Mehta R,Bratthauer G,Alaparthi L,Monge F,Ali S,Abdelatif D,Younoszai Z,Stepanova M,Goodman ZD,Younossi ZM

更新日期：2019-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although many of the factors and molecules closely associated with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) have been reported, the role of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS)-derived nitric oxide (NO) on the progression of NASH remains unclear. We therefore investigated the role of iNOS-derived NO in NASH pa...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Nozaki Y,Fujita K,Wada K,Yoneda M,Kessoku T,Shinohara Y,Imajo K,Ogawa Y,Nakamuta M,Saito S,Masaki N,Nagashima Y,Terauchi Y,Nakajima A

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent evidence cautions against the use of non-selective beta-blockers (NSBB) in patients with refractory ascites or spontaneous bacterial peritonitis while other data suggests a survival benefit in patients with advanced liver disease. The aim of this study was to describe the use and impact of NSBB in pat...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Ngwa T,Orman E,Gomez EV,Vuppalanchi R,Kubal C,Chalasani N,Ghabril M

更新日期：2020-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Brazil, it is estimated that between 2.5 and 4.9% of the general population present anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies, which corresponds to as many as 3.9 to 7.6 million chronic carriers. Chronic liver disease is associated with HCV infection in 20% to 58% of the Brazilian patients. The objective of...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Brandão AB,Fuchs SC

更新日期：2002-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Translocation of gut-derived bacterial products such as endotoxin is a major problem in liver cirrhosis. METHODS:To assess the hepatic clearance of bacterial products in individuals with cirrhosis, we tested concentrations of Gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), LPS-binding protein (LBP), and t...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Benten D,Schulze zur Wiesch J,Sydow K,Koops A,Buggisch P,Böger RH,Gaydos CA,Won H,Franco V,Lohse AW,Ray SC,Balagopal A

更新日期：2011-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of the crural diaphragm during increased intra-abdominal pressure is not exactly known. We investigated the hypothesis that the crural diaphragm undergoes reflex phasic contraction on elevation of the intra-abdominal pressure with a resulting increase of the lower esophageal pressure and prevention ...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Shafik A,Shafik AA,El Sibai O,Mostafa RM

更新日期：2004-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wireless capsule pH-metry (WC) is better tolerated than standard nasal pH catheter (SC), but endoscopic placement is expensive. AIMS:to confirm that non-endoscopic peroral manometric placement of WC is as effective and better tolerated than SC and to perform a cost analysis of the available esophageal pH-me...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Andrews CN,Sadowski DC,Lazarescu A,Williams C,Neshev E,Storr M,Au F,Heitman SJ

更新日期：2012-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A gluten-free diet (GFD) is the only effective treatment for celiac patients and assessing adherence to this diet is important. Celiac disease Adherence Test (CDAT) is a valid English-language questionnaire that is used for assessing the adherence to the GFD. In the present study, we aimed to translate the C...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Nikniaz Z,Asghari Jafarabadi M,Ghaffarifar S,Saeedi Z,Akbari Namvar Z,Shirmohammadi M

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The normal physiology of the gastrointestinal tract has been only cursorily examined. Consequently, the pathophysiology of disturbances of the gastrointestinal functions is poorly known. Recurrent vomiting is one of many functional conditions for which it is difficult to find an explanation and to treat. In ...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Ohlsson B

更新日期：2006-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined the intrinsic hepatic innervation after partial hepatectomy (PH) in rats and the presence and pattern of neural sprouting in regenerating liver. METHODS:Male Wistar rats (age 9-13 weeks-w, weight 204-356 g), were submitted to two-thirds PH. Rats were sacrificed at postoperative days (d) 1, 3, 5,...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Kandilis AN,Koskinas J,Vlachos I,Skaltsas S,Karandrea D,Karakitsos P,Pantopoulou A,Palaiologou M,Nikiteas N,Tiniakos DG,Perrea DN

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Feeding related peptides have been shown to be additionally involved in the central autonomic control of gastrointestinal functions. Recent studies have shown that ghrelin, a stomach-derived orexigenic peptide, is involved in the autonomic regulation of GI function besides feeding behavior. Pharmacological e...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Tebbe JJ,Tebbe CG,Mronga S,Ritter M,Schäfer MK

更新日期：2005-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Allergic proctocolitis (APC) in exclusively breast-fed infants is caused by food proteins, deriving from maternal diet, transferred through lactation. In most cases a maternal cow milk-free diet leads to a prompt resolution of rectal bleeding, while in some patients a multiple food allergy can occur. The aim...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Lucarelli S,Di Nardo G,Lastrucci G,D'Alfonso Y,Marcheggiano A,Federici T,Frediani S,Frediani T,Cucchiara S

更新日期：2011-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of thickeners is a standard therapy for decreasing episodes of regurgitation or vomiting in infants. However, it remains to be investigated whether thickener is effective for vomiting and/or chronic respiratory symptoms in children with cerebral palsy. METHODS:We enrolled 18 neurologically impaired ...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Miyazawa R,Tomomasa T,Kaneko H,Arakawa H,Shimizu N,Morikawa A

更新日期：2008-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing evidence elucidating the pathogenic mechanisms of ulcerative colitis (UC) has accumulated and the disease is widely assumed to be the consequence of genetic susceptibility and an abnormal immune response to commensal bacteria. However evidence regarding an infectious etiology in UC remains elusive...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Miner J,Gillan MM,Alex P,Centola M

更新日期：2005-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy (MNGIE) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in TYMP gene, encoding nuclear thymidine phosphorylase (TP). MNGIE mainly presents with gastrointestinal symptoms and is mostly misdiagnosed in many patients as malabsorption syndrome, inf...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Habibzadeh P,Silawi M,Dastsooz H,Bahramjahan S,Ezzatzadegan Jahromi S,Ostovan VR,Yavarian M,Mofatteh M,Faghihi MA

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The elderly population presents higher morbidity of H. pylori associated diseases in proximal stomach. The specific pathogenesis and mechanism have not been clearly addressed. The gastric environment for H. pylori colonization is dynamic with increasing age. The aim of present study is to investigate the cor...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Shi H,Xiong H,Qian W,Lin R

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastrointestinal fistula (GIF) in severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) is considered as a sparse episode and studied sporadically in the literature. There is paucity of data on the prediction of the effect on risk of GIF in patient with SAP. This study was aimed to investigate risk factors related to GIF in the d...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Hua Z,Su Y,Huang X,Zhang K,Yin Z,Wang X,Liu P

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The majority of colonic obstructions result from colorectal cancer. However, malignancies of extra-colonic origin can also disrupt colorectal patency, and the efficacy of self-expanding metal stents (SEMS) insertion as a bridge to surgery in these patients are still in debate. The aim of this study is to eva...

journal_title：BMC gastroenterology

authors： Kim EJ,Han SH,Kim KO,Chung JW,Park DK,Kwon KA,Kim JH

更新日期：2020-04-19 00:00:00