abstract：:There are at present no clear guidelines whether foreign body ingestion in the gastrointestinal tract should be managed conservatively, endoscopically or surgically. Retrospectively we have, therefore, analyzed 78 foreign body ingestion's in 42 patients (age 15-72 years) admitted to the Emergency Department of the Uni...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Kürkciyan I,Frossard M,Kettenbach J,Meron G,Sterz F,Röggla M,Laggner AN

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue specific regulation of gene expression by transcription factors is a fascinating new field in molecular immunology. This review summarizes data on specific regulation of promoters and enhancers by nuclear trans-acting factors in lymphocytes. The structural classes of transcription factors are described and basi...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Neurath MF,Meyer zum Büschenfelde KH

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of class I (A, B, C) and class II (DR antigens) histocompatibility antigens (HLA) was examined in 82 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and in 147 patients with chronic liver disease as controls. The diagnosis of HCC was confirmed by histological examination of liver tissue. HLA-B15 antigen ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Golubovic G,Stajic M,Stolic I,Nikolic JA,Neskovic AN,Pandey L

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diathermocoagulation is indispensable in interventional endoscopy. The argon beam coagulation represents an innovative electrocoagulation method, where high-frequency alternating current is conducted to tissues by ionized argon gas without contact. Before clinical application we performed in vitro studies to evaluate ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Johanns W,Jakobeit C,Luis W,Greiner L

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis C virus infection can be associated with mixed cryoglobulinemia and systemic vasculitis. The pathogenesis remains poorly understood. 55 consecutive patients with chronic HCI infection (anti-HCV- and serum HCV RNA-positive) were studies prospectively. Cryoglobulinemia was detected in 28 patients (51%)...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Hartmann H,Schott P,Polzien F,Mihm S,Uy A,Kaboth U,Pardowitz I,Ramadori G

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitors of the HMG-CoA reductase have been shown to further reduce the biliary cholesterol saturation in patients treated with oral bile acids for cholesterol gallbladder stones. It was the aim of our study to evaluate the efficacy of simvastatin in addition to ursodeoxycholic acid in the dissolution of gallstone f...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Sackmann M,Koelbl R,Pauletzki J,Cremer P,Klueppelberg UG,von Ritter C,Sauter G,Holl J,Seidel D,Paumgartner G

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Western societies roughly 50% of all cases of liver cirrhosis are related to alcohol abuse. The oxidative metabolite of ethanol, acetaldehyde, often in conjunction with viral or metabolic liver disease, is implicated as the major cause for liver fibrogenesis. Acetaldehyde damages cell membranes, initiates lipid per...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Schuppan D,Atkinson J,Ruehl M,Riecken EO

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case report ist given on a 54-year-old patient with the so called lipid island (xanthelasma) in the duodenal mucosa. Xanthelasmas are very rarely located in the duodenal mucosa. The diagnosis and differential diagnosis of this entity are reported. The relevance of histochemistry and immunohistochemistry for differen...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Knolle J,Wessel H,Hildebrandt E

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the anaerobic metabolism of the colonic bacterial flora short chain fatty acids and the gases hydrogen (H2) and carbon dioxyde (CO2) are produced. In about 50% of a European and North-American population and in 90% of rural black Africans, methane is generated from H2 and CO2. In methane-negative individuals, s...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Christl SU,Scheppach W,Kasper H

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The semi-continuous colon simulation technique was used as an experimental in vitro model to study potential effects of clindamycin application on basic parameters of microbial hindgut metabolism. Hindgut contents from fistulated pigs kept on conventional diets were used as substrates for incubation. Measurements on r...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Stück K,Faul K,Hylla S,Stein J,Breves G

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 28 year old Turkish woman, who was admitted to our hospital with the symptoms of malabsorption and protein-loosing enteropathy. Histologically, on duodenal biopsy, a lymphoplasmacellular infiltration of the submucosa with partial to subtotal atrophy of the villi was found. An immunoproliferative small i...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Hubmann R,Kaiser W,Radaszkiewicz T,Fridrik M,Zazgornik I

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of a 52 year old patient with multiple gastric wall abscesses. In 1987 a selective proximal vagotomy was performed. Because of non-specific gastric symptoms in 1993 an endoscopy and an endoscopic ultrasound was performed at another hospital which resulted in the likely diagnosis of multiple leiom...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Messmann H,Hollerbach S,Gross V,Holstege A,Büttner R,Schmidt J,Hohenberger W,Schölmerich J

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous splenic rupture as a complication of infectious mononucleosis was diagnosed in a 19-year-old woman. Sonographic and MRI investigations revealed subcapsular hematoma of the spleen without overt rupture. The patient was managed conservatively. Somatostatin treatment was initiated in order to reduce splanchni...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Paar WD,Look MP,Robertz Vaupel GM,Kreft B,Hirner A,Sauerbruch T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case history of a 28-year-old homosexual man of Caucasian origin whose diagnosis of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was established one year before admission on the basis of a positive human immunodeficiency virus serology and cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma. Severe postprandial vomiting pointed to bowel o...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Lingenfelser T,Daiss W,Overkamp D,Weber P

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the opinions of referring physicians on the contents of endoscopy reports, 150 consecutive endoscopy reports were accompanied by a questionnaire. Of these, 102 reports were returned: response was 68%. Almost half of the reports were considered not fully satisfactory. However, endoscopy reports may be improve...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Moorman PW,Siersema PD,van Ginneken AM,van Blankenstein M

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study retrospectively evaluates all endoscopies performed on a medical intensive care unit during the period from 1986 to 1992. During these seven years, 415 endoscopies were performed of which 77.8% were done as an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. The most frequent findings consisted in esophagitis (23.6...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Niederau C,Lübke H,Schumacher B,Strohmeyer G

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was the aim of the present study to examine whether 111In-pentetreotide, a somatostatin analogue with predominantly renal excretion, is a suitable receptor agonist for scintigraphic imaging of endocrine gastro-entero-pancreatic (GEP) tumors, and to evaluate the contribution of the usual imaging times 4 and 24 h p.i...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Nauck C,Ivancević V,Emrich D,Creutzfeldt W

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Localization of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors with conventional imaging techniques can be difficult. With the advent of the somatostatin-receptor scintigraphy the diagnosis of these could be improved. In this study 76 patients with immunohistologically proven neuroendocrine tumors were analysed by compa...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Faiss S,Scherübl H,Bäder M,Fett U,Koppenhagen K,Wiedenmann B,Riecken EO

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five weeks after a four-day visit to Malta, a 39-year old white male German national developed septic temperatures of up to 40 degrees C, progressive jaundice and a pronounced hepatosplenomegaly. The initial examination showed a very sick, somnolent patient with jaundice, cyanosis, tachypnea and a markedly enlarged li...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Janowitz P,Wechsler JG,Malfertheiner P,Blanco J,Kern P

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol-induced hypersecretion probably contributes to chronic alcoholic pancreatitis. Feeding of raw soybean flour or soybean trypsin inhibitor also stimulates protein secretion of the pancreas. Therefore, we tested whether or not the pancreatic damage is increased by additional feeding of raw soybean flour in rats f...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Siegmund E,Jonas L,Dummler W

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a cardiologic work-up in patients with retrosternal pain are negative in about 20-30% of cases. Overall one half of these patients exhibit an esophageal dysfunction. In order to diagnose esophageal dysfunction long-term pH-metry, transit scintigraphy and standard manometry are used as well as provocatio...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Adamek RJ,Wegener M,Wienbeck M

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 34-year-old Turkish woman presented with septic fever, sweats, arthralgia, and abdominal pain. Further examination revealed generalized lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia, and multiple caseous granulomas. Microbiological diagnosis revealed Brucella melitensis type 3 as causative agent. This case repor...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Göke M,Neurath M,Braunstein S,Daniello S,Knolle P,Dippold W,Meyer zum Büschenfelde KH

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discussions about the relationship between helicobacter-pylori-infection, gastritis and the occurrence of stomach cancer caused us to analyse blood sera of 543 participants randomly selected from the general population in the age of 25 to 34 and of 55 to 64 years from Mosbach (Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis), the co...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Haubrich T,Boeing H,Göres W,Hengels KJ,Scheuermann W,Wahrendorf J

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgery of anorectal incontinence includes two essential forms: the traumatic lesion of the sphincter and the spontaneous proceeding incontinence. Both forms of incontinence require a surgical therapy that is concerned to its cause. Fresh traumatic lesions of the sphincter can be reconstructed directly by primary sutu...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Girona J,Denkers D

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major target antigen of LKM-1 autoantibodies in chronic active hepatitis is cytochrome P450 IID6. The role of LKM-1 autoantibodies in the pathogenesis of the disease is not clear. A crucial point is the expression of the target epitope on the hepatocyte membrane. Cultured rat hepatocytes were used in this study. T...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Trautwein C,Gerken G,Löhr H,Meyer zum Büschenfelde KH,Manns M

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was the aim of our study to prove a potential correlation (a) between laboratory findings of cholestasis and autonomic neuropathy (AN) and (b) between the severity of AN and the prolongation of the corrected QT-time (QTc). The five standard tests of autonomic cardiac neuropathy were investigated. QTc was calculated...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Kempler P,Szalay F,Váradi A,Keresztes K,Kádár E,Tánczos E,Petrik J

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholestasis is a combination of defined clinical, paraclinical and morphological findings of which icterus is the direct symptom. It is the consequence of the delay or detention of the bile flow. By means of light microscopy different changes can be observed in hepatic tissue: formation of biliary thrombi, intracellul...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Machnik G

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory diagnostics efficiently applied is of decisive importance for a great deal of questions in spite of the technical and endoscopic methods which are available today in the field of examinations. By means of a screening programme consisting of ALAT, gamma-GT, ChE at a sensitivity of > 90% alterations in both t...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Nilius R,Jonczyk M

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About 5-10% of all bile-duct stones cannot be removed by endoscopic papillotomy and mechanic lithotripsy. Intracorporal laser lithotropsy has meanwhile become a safe technique which can be used in an endoscopic retrograde way or percutaneously transhepatically. The greatest clinical experience exists in connection wit...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Ell C

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatic porphyrias (CHP) are associated with different degrees of liver damage. They range from minimal histological changes to cirrhosis and primary liver carcinomas. Forty patients with early stages of porphyrias were compared to 85 patients with clinically manifest porphyrias, Porphyria cutanea tarda. This ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Pätzold K,Hahn L,Lohmann J,Porst H

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of antipyrine to each of its three major metabolites 4-hydroxy-, 3-methylhydroxy- and norantipyrine has previously been demonstrated to be differentially affected in alcoholic cirrhosis. This study compared the metabolism of antipyrine to its metabolites in 30 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis to 15 pat...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Wensing G,Hoffmann K,Heidemann HT

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized placebo-controlled parallel and double-blind study the gastroduodenal effects of 20 mg piroxicam daily was evaluated endoscopically in the presence of ranitidine 150 mg bid or 300 mg bid in 31 healthy volunteers. Drugs were taken over a period of 14 days. Endoscopies were performed at entry and repeate...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Müller P,Leucht U,Simon B

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful application of non operative procedures for gallstone therapy are limited on cholesterol stones. Therefore reliable therapeutic analysis of stone components is mandatory for planning of an adequate therapy. Computed tomographic gallstone analysis is considered to improve selection of patients significantly....

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Staritz M,Thelen M

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid consumption test (AACT) during exogenous stimulation with secretin and CCK was proposed as a sensitive and highly specific test for detection of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. To further investigate the diagnostic value of this test we measured the AACT in comparison with the pancreolauryl serum tes...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Kemmer TP,Malfertheiner P,Häberle H,Pohlandt F,Friess H,Büchler M,Ditschuneit H

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomembranous colitis is a well known complication of antibiotic therapy. Only recently few cases of another form of an antibiotic-associated colitis, the acute segmental haemorrhagic penicillin-associated colitis, have been described. We report another case and point out the importance of early colonoscopy to dist...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Flueckiger T,Froehli P,Baltisser I

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1977, 15 patients have undergone surgery for Zenker's diverticula at the University of Würzburg Department of Surgery. We were able to follow up 6 of them after an average of 4 years (5 months to 10.5 years). Preoperative manometric findings available on one patient revealed markedly impaired coordination betwee...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Broll R,Kramer T,Kalb K,Bruch HP

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trophic effect of gastrin in the intestine has been shown. Fasting gastrin levels of patients with adenomatous polyps or adenocarcinoma and in control subjects were determined (n = 141). The mean value of fasting gastrin of control subjects (n = 75) was 47.1 pg/ml +/- 17.8, of patients with adenomatous polyps (n =...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Kaufmann HP,Ottenjann R

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this report are to: 1) compare the Crohn's disease (CD) patient's assessment of their well-being to the physician's assessment of the patient's well-being, 2) use the existing Crohn's disease indices (CDI) in comparing the severity of CD with the patient's self assessment, and 3) compare the CDI with...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Reed JF 3rd,Faust LA,Rosen L

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic secretion is involved in circadian regulation of the whole organism. This observation was obtained in animals and humans with pancreatic fistulas. We report on three patients in whom the pancreas was removed totally or subtotally because of chronic pancreatitis with severe pain. A segment of the removed gla...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Liebe S,Siegmund E,Lorenz D,Petermann J,Rehpenning W

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of a known T cell mitogen, phytohemagglutinin (PHA) and the neuropeptide beta-endorphin on the in vitro lymphocyte proliferative response in patients with ulcerative colitis and in health persons. We found that patients with ulcerative colitis show enhanced reactivity to PHA, when incubated ...

journal_title：Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

authors： Nikolopoulou V,Lafi T,Athanasiadou A,Zoumbos N

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00