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2,900 | 2,781 | Castor bean intoxication.
We report the cases of a child who ingested two or more castor beans and two adults who each ingested four beans.
All three patients developed severe gastroenteritis and recovered without sequelae after receiving IV fluids.
The literature contains reports of 424 cases of castor bean intoxic... | C06 |
2,901 | 8,000 | Detection and direct sequencing of hepatitis B virus genome by DNA amplification method.
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA was detected with amplification by the polymerase chain reaction method.
Cloned HBV DNA equivalent to one virus genome (3 x 10(-6) pg) was detectable by ethidium bromide staining after 50 cycles of pol... | C06 |
2,902 | 9,713 | Disposition of 5-aminosalicylic acid by olsalazine and three mesalazine preparations in patients with ulcerative colitis: comparison of intraluminal colonic concentrations, serum values, and urinary excretion.
To compare the disposition of 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) and its acetylated metabolite during treatment wi... | C06 |
2,903 | 642 | Adjuvant antibiotic therapy in duodenal ulcers treated with colloidal bismuth subcitrate.
Persistence of Helicobacter pylori after duodenal ulcer healing is associated with high rates of ulcer relapse.
We compared colloidal bismuth subcitrate alone with CBS combined with one of four antibiotic regimens in the treatme... | C06 |
2,904 | 3,782 | The surgical management of children with ulcerative colitis. The old vs. the new.
The authors' experience with children who have chronic ulcerative colitis was reviewed to compare their current surgical approach (ileoanal anastomosis) with earlier methods of management.
Between 1960 and 1984, 137 children with chroni... | C06 |
2,905 | 622 | Soluble interleukin-2 receptor in Crohn's disease: relation of serum concentrations to disease activity.
Serum concentrations of soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R) were measured as a marker of immune activation in a group of 30 patients with Crohn's disease.
sIL-2R concentrations were determined by enzyme linked... | C06 |
2,906 | 9,662 | Amyloidosis associated bleeding diatheses in the surgical patient.
The coagulopathies associated with amyloidosis have not been widely appreciated.
We encountered a patient with amyloidosis and mildly abnormal coagulation studies who presented for an emergency laparotomy for acute bowel obstruction.
Upon gentle mani... | C06 |
2,907 | 2,139 | Are cystgastrostomy and cystjejunostomy equivalent operations for pancreatic pseudocysts?
To compare the effectiveness of cystgastrostomy and cystjejunostomy for treatment of pancreatic pseudocysts, 39 patients with cystgastrostomy were compared to 59 patients with cystjejunostomy.
The groups were comparable in age, ... | C06 |
2,908 | 7,509 | Long term survival and severe rebleeding after variceal sclerotherapy.
Of 197 consecutive patients with cirrhosis admitted because of bleeding from esophageal varices, 133 were included in a prospective study of elective sclerotherapy.
We evaluated the incidence of extensive rebleeding and mortality rate.
The period... | C06 |
2,909 | 6,566 | Outpatient laparoscopic laser cholecystectomy.
Laparoscopic laser cholecystectomy has been performed clinically in the United States since 1988.
After refinement of the technique, the procedure was offered on an outpatient basis.
Eighty-three patients underwent laparoscopic laser cholecystectomy during the study per... | C06 |
2,910 | 8,283 | Laparoscopic tubal sterilization. The potential for thermal bowel injury.
One of the most severe complications of laparoscopic tubal sterilization is bowel burns, although they often go undetected at the time of laparoscopy.
Controversy remains over whether these injuries are caused directly by operator error or indi... | C06 |
2,911 | 3,350 | Aetiology of pancreatic cancer
Curative surgery is possible in only a small minority of patients with pancreatic cancer and, to date, responses to chemotherapy and radiotherapy have been disappointing.
To make any impact on the incidence of the disease a clearer understanding of its aetiology is required.
This revi... | C06 |
2,912 | 9,722 | Monitoring enzyme replacement treatment in exocrine pancreatic insufficiency using the cholesteryl octanoate breath test.
The cholesteryl-14C-octanoate breath test was used to monitor the intraluminal enzymatic activity of pancreatin preparations in six patients with severe pancreatic insufficiency.
Conventional enzy... | C06 |
2,913 | 4,522 | Limitations in the evaluation of therapy in inflammatory bowel disease: suggestions for future research.
The current treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), though improved over earlier therapies, remains variable rather than consistent and supportive rather than curative.
The similar management of ulcerative ... | C06 |
2,914 | 2,440 | Hyperplastic gastric polyps associated with persistent Helicobacter pylori infection and active gastritis.
We report two cases of patients with 3-yr histories of upper gastrointestinal symptoms, hyperplastic gastric polyps, and active chronic gastritis.
Biopsies retrospectively stained with Giemsa revealed the persis... | C06 |
2,915 | 9,630 | Impaired polymorphonuclear leucocyte function in patients undergoing hepatectomy: adenylate energy charge and superoxide anion production in relation to hepatic mitochondrial redox state.
Patients undergoing hepatectomy have an increased susceptibility to infection.
We therefore studied the energy metabolism of the p... | C06 |
2,916 | 8,460 | Surgical management of bile duct stones.
The biliary surgeon in the 1990s must be familiar with all of the available techniques for the treatment of bile duct stones.
Experience and judgment are important in the successful management of the individual patient with intrahepatic or extrahepatic stones.
Knowledge of th... | C06 |
2,917 | 6,926 | Acute autonomic neuropathy. Two cases and a clinical review.
Acute autonomic neuropathy is an uncommon syndrome, usually affecting healthy young people.
Presentation is often dramatic and initial misdiagnosis is common.
We describe two young women with acute autonomic neuropathy who presented with gastrointestinal i... | C06 |
2,918 | 4,046 | Selective intestinal decontamination increases serum and ascitic fluid C3 levels in cirrhosis.
Selective intestinal decontamination for 7 days with norfloxacin was performed in 14 cirrhotic patients with ascites and low ascitic fluid total protein.
Variations in serum and ascitic fluid of C3 and C4 and ascitic fluid ... | C06 |
2,919 | 2,158 | Circadian esophageal motor function in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Effective esophageal peristalsis is a major determinant of esophageal clearance function and may contribute to the development of complications in gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Using 24-hour ambulatory esophageal manometry, we co... | C06 |
2,920 | 6,271 | Effects of common illnesses on infants' energy intakes from breast milk and other foods during longitudinal community-based studies in Huascar (Lima), Peru.
To assess the effects of common infections on dietary intake, 131 Peruvian infants were observed longitudinally.
Home surveillance for illness symptoms was compl... | C06 |
2,921 | 6,331 | Dysphagia following fundoplication: "slipped" fundoplication versus achalasia complicated by fundoplication.
Failure to obtain preoperative esophageal manometry in patients being considered for antireflux surgery can result in immediate persistent postoperative dysphagia due to a missed diagnosis of achalasia.
We des... | C06 |
2,922 | 5,216 | Small cell carcinoma of the pancreas and biliary tract.
Four cases of anaplastic carcinoma of the pancreas or biliary tract were studied clinicopathologically and immunohistochemically.
All four cases were intermediate cell type and contained a minimum amount of microscopic foci of differentiated glandular adenocarci... | C06 |
2,923 | 6,007 | Preventing colorectal cancer.
Knowledgeable patients should not die of colorectal cancer.
Increasing the intake of dietary fiber, decreasing fat consumption, and increasing the use of modern technology to detect adenomatous polyps and early cancer can greatly decrease the mortality associated with colorectal cancer. | C06 |
2,924 | 626 | Use of the pudendo-anal reflex in the treatment of neurogenic faecal incontinence.
An electrical stimulator has been devised to treat neurogenic faecal incontinence caused by pudendal nerve neuropathy and works on the basis of repeated stimulation of the pudendo-anal reflex arc.
Although conduction in the pudendo-ana... | C06 |
2,925 | 8,465 | Carcinoma of the gallbladder.
Gallbladder cancer remains difficult to diagnose preoperatively.
However, recent work suggests that ultrasound may be effective.
Gallbladder cancer remains highly lethal despite aggressive therapy.
Extension of the disease beyond the mucosa predicts a poor chance of long-term survival. | C06 |
2,926 | 565 | Phospholipids from rat, human, and canine gastric mucosa. Composition and metabolism of molecular classes of phosphatidylcholine.
To validate a recent proposal that a phospholipid lining with a high content of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine may protect gastric mucosa against luminal acid, it was decided to study compo... | C06 |
2,927 | 8,015 | Hepatic fibrin-ring granulomas in a patient with hepatitis A.
Hepatic fibrin-ring granulomas were found in a 30-year-old patient with serologically confirmed hepatitis A.
Other causes associated with the presence of fibrin-ring granulomas in the liver, such as Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, cytomegalovirus inf... | C06 |
2,928 | 6,559 | High incidence of viral hepatitis among American missionaries in Africa.
Protestant missionaries (n = 360) serving in sub-Saharan Africa between 1967-1984 were studied to determine the risk of hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection.
Personnel were serologically screened for antibody to both the... | C06 |
2,929 | 4,520 | Stasis syndromes following gastric surgery: clinical and motility features of 60 symptomatic patients.
We retrospectively reviewed the records of 60 patients who had been referred for gastrointestinal manometry because of stasis after gastric surgery.
Nausea, vomiting, bloating, abdominal pain, and weight loss were t... | C06 |
2,930 | 577 | Anorectal function in incontinent patients with cerebrospinal disease.
Anorectal manometry and the electrical activity of the external anal sphincter were measured in 20 patients with well-defined, incomplete spinal lesions who were referred because of fecal incontinence and in 30 normal subjects.
Six patients had a ... | C06 |
2,931 | 7,694 | Does somatostatin analogue prevent experimental acute pancreatitis?
Because somatostatin is a potent inhibitor of pancreatic secretion, we hypothesized that pretreatment with somatostatin analogue octreotide (SMS 201-995) might prevent cerulein-induced edematous pancreatitis.
We studied 18 rats prepared with jugular ... | C06 |
2,932 | 2,442 | Gallbladder carcinoma producing human chorionic gonadotropin.
A primary carcinoma of the gallbladder producing human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) was encountered in an 83-yr-old Japanese woman, with elevation of HCG/beta-HCG in urine and serum.
Remarkable elevation of serum estradiol was an associated finding, with i... | C06 |
2,933 | 3,805 | Cirrhosis of the liver. A risk factor for development of cholelithiasis in males.
An ultrasonographic study about the prevalence of cholelithiasis was performed in 410 cirrhotic patients and in 414 controls matched for age and sex.
Gallstone disease was found more often in cirrhotic patients (31.9%) than in controls ... | C06 |
2,934 | 602 | Mechanical lithotripsy of common duct stones.
Over the past 8 years we have utilized various types of mechanical lithotriptors to crush common bile duct stones.
The procedure was performed in 93 patients with an overall success rate of 94%.
However, because many accessories were in a developmental stage, entrapment ... | C06 |
2,935 | 9,177 | Peritoneal mesothelioma: an unusual cause of esophageal achalasia.
Secondary esophageal achalasia due to malignancy is a rare condition; only 53 such cases have been reported to date.
Sixty-two percent of the cases were due to gastric adenocarcinoma.
Mesothelioma of the peritoneum is an uncommon neoplasm.
The usual... | C06 |
2,936 | 8,309 | Genital herpes simplex virus infections.
There has been a dramatic increase in patient visits to physicians for evaluation and treatment of genital herpes infections.
This has resulted in part from an increase in genital herpes infections, particularly severe, first-episode genital herpes infections in adults without... | C06 |
2,937 | 9,172 | Increasing prevalence of gallstones in male veterans with alcoholic cirrhosis.
Cases of alcoholic cirrhosis identified at necropsy were studied for the prevalence and type of gallstones, compared with age- and race-matched autopsy controls.
Data were examined from 1970-1977 and 1980-1987.
In the early sample of 460 ... | C06 |
2,938 | 9,650 | Duodenogastric reflux and gastric histology after cholecystectomy with or without sphincteroplasty.
Sixteen patients who had undergone cholecystectomy plus sphincteroplasty, 14 cholecystectomized patients and ten control patients were studied to evaluate whether differences existed in duodenogastric reflux and whether... | C06 |
2,939 | 202 | The management of pseudomyxoma peritonei.
The management of nine patients with pseudomyxoma peritonei was reviewed.
Aggressive surgical resection of tumor is the standard of treatment, with many patients requiring multiple laparotomies.
Chemotherapy, including the use of cisplatin is not effective.
Long-term nutrit... | C06 |
2,940 | 5,906 | Clinical experience with biliary extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.
Biliary lithotripsy is a new and important development in the nonsurgical management of gallbladder, cystic duct, and bile duct stones.
Most patients do not require general or epidural anesthesia with newer second-generation machines.
Patient se... | C06 |
2,941 | 2,551 | Intrapartum uterine rupture and inflammatory bowel disease.
The incidence of uterine rupture in pregnant women ranges from 0% to 1.1% in large series.
This case report describes a woman with a history of obstetric complications, uterine rupture, and active inflammatory bowel disease that was treated with high-dose pr... | C06 |
2,942 | 677 | Changes of serum hepatitis B virus DNA and aminotransferase levels during the course of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in children.
During a follow-up period of 3.2 +/- 1.6 (1 to 8.6) yr, 1,087 serum specimens from 230 HBsAg carrier children were tested for hepatitis B virus markers.
Dividing the serum specimens... | C06 |
2,943 | 3,092 | T cell subsets (Tc, Th, Ts, Tsi) and IL2 receptor-bearing cells in peripheral blood of patients in the acute phase of alcoholic hepatitis.
The present study was designed to evaluate the proportion of T cell subsets and IL2 receptor positive cells in the peripheral blood of patients with acute alcoholic hepatitis (AAH)... | C06 |
2,944 | 259 | Epidural morphine for analgesia after caesarean section: a report of 4880 patients
This retrospective study was undertaken to assess the efficacy and safety of epidural morphine in providing analgesia following Caesarean section under epidural anaesthesia.
The morphine was administered as a single bolus, following d... | C06 |
2,945 | 2,428 | Sucralfate used as adjunctive therapy in patients with severe erosive peptic esophagitis resulting from gastroesophageal reflux.
A total of 36 patients with grade 2 or greater erosive esophagitis and an abnormal 24-h pH monitor study, were treated in a randomized, double-blind fashion to assess the efficacy of sucralf... | C06 |
2,946 | 3,425 | Parathyroid hormone-like peptide in normal and neoplastic mesothelial cells.
Mesothelioma has not been commonly reported as a cause of hypercalcemia of malignancy.
We have studied a patient with malignant mesothelioma and hypercalcemia in association with elevated plasma concentrations of parathyroid hormone-like pep... | C06 |
2,947 | 8,297 | Diagnostic significance of carcinoembryonic antigen in the differential diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma.
The histologic and cytologic distinction of malignant mesothelioma from carcinomas metastatic to the pleura or peritoneum is often problematic.
For this reason immunologic methods are being increasingly used a... | C06 |
2,948 | 9,637 | Free radical inhibition and serial chemiluminescence in evolving experimental pancreatitis.
Oxygen free radical activity and inhibition were examined in experimental pancreatitis.
Twenty-five rats were randomized to five groups: controls received intravenous saline, to simulate pancreatitis one group received intrave... | C06 |
2,949 | 2,150 | Anomalies of intestinal rotation in childhood: analysis of 447 cases.
This report concerns 447 infants and children with anomalies of rotation and fixation.
Patients were placed in four groups based on initial symptoms.
Group A involved 18 patients with acute midgut volvulus.
At laparotomy, midgut volvulus was note... | C06 |
2,950 | 9,710 | Modulation of fluid absorption and the secretory response of rat jejunum to cholera toxin by dietary fat.
To study the effects of dietary fat on jejunal water and ion absorption and on cholera toxin-induced secretion, 3 week old Sprague Dawley rats were fed isocaloric diets.
Forty per cent of the total calories were ... | C06 |
2,951 | 4,532 | A nongastrin malignant ampullary tumor causing gastric acid and pepsin hypersecretion. A case report.
We report a case of multiple duodenal ulcers with gastric hypersecretion due to a nongastrin secretagogue produced by a malignant tumor of the pancreas in a 78-year-old man.
The case resembled a Zollinger-Ellison syn... | C06 |
2,952 | 6,738 | Gastroesophageal reflux and sclerotherapy strictures.
The development of esophageal stricture is common following endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy (EVS).
Gastroesophageal reflux may be at least partly responsible.
Twelve randomly selected male patients underwent chronic EVS for the management of bleeding esophageal... | C06 |
2,953 | 5,675 | Nausea, vomiting, and retching.
Although nausea, vomiting, and retching have plagued mankind since antiquity, limited attention has been given to the three symptoms as separate entities.
Although knowledge of symptom occurrence is essential to practice, nurses must focus on patients' response or distress to the occur... | C06 |
2,954 | 570 | A comparison in vitro of human and rabbit distal colonic muscle responses to inflammatory mediators.
The present study compared in vitro the motor responses of human and rabbit distal colonic longitudinal and circular muscle to acetylcholine, histamine, leukotrienes B4 and D4, and prostaglandins E2 and F2 alpha.
The ... | C06 |
2,955 | 3,040 | Fibrin glue inhibits intra-abdominal adhesion formation.
To determine the effect of fibrin glue on intra-abdominal adhesion formation, 45 rats were randomized to three groups.
Each animal received two adhesion models.
Group 1 received no further treatment.
Groups 2 and 3 had the adhesion models covered with fibrino... | C06 |
2,956 | 6,825 | Preoperative stabilisation in congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Between January 1983 and November 1986, 26 newborn infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia were treated by early operation at a mean of 7 hours of age.
A further 23 infants admitted between December 1986 and December 1989 were stabilised for a mean p... | C06 |
2,957 | 9,169 | Helicobacter pylori infection in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
A controlled study was conducted on patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection referred for upper endoscopy to evaluate the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori (H.
pylori) infection.
Four different stains and culture fo... | C06 |
2,958 | 687 | Albumin absorption and protein secretion by the gallbladder in man and in the pig.
To study albumin absorption by the gallbladder in man, an in vitro model was first established in the pig and compared with in vivo function in the same species.
Water and electrolyte transport and 125I-albumin absorption and protein s... | C06 |
2,959 | 8,741 | Aerobic work capacity in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome
OBJECTIVE--To determine the aerobic work capacity of patients with the chronic fatigue syndrome and compare it with that of two control groups, and to assess the patients' perception of their level of activity before and during illness.
DESIGN--A sympto... | C06 |
2,960 | 2,673 | Brain and liver dolichol in chronic alcoholism: a necropsy study.
Cerebral gray and white matter and liver dolichol levels were measured in postmortem samples from chronic alcoholics and nonalcoholic controls following recent suggestions that dolichol levels may be used as a marker for alcoholism.
No significant diff... | C06 |
2,961 | 6,345 | Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease--more than a renal disease.
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common genetic disease, affecting a half million Americans.
The clinical phenotype can result from at least two different gene defects.
One gene that can cause ADPKD has been loca... | C06 |
2,962 | 9,652 | Success of a program of routine prenatal screening for hepatitis B surface antigen: the first 2 years.
Prenatal screening for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) restricted to women with defined risk factors for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection fails to identify many carriers.
A centralized program of routin... | C06 |
2,963 | 9,712 | Microspectrophotometric DNA analysis in ulcerative colitis with special reference to its application in diagnosis of carcinoma and dysplasia.
The deoxyribonucleic (DNA) content was measured by microspectrophotometry in 100 specimens from 60 patients with ulcerative colitis, including six patients in whom the colitis w... | C06 |
2,964 | 667 | Fluorescence assays to monitor membrane fusion: potential application in biliary lipid secretion and vesicle interactions.
Membrane fusion constitutes an essential, intermediate step in numerous cell biological processes, occurring for example during endocytosis, membrane recycling and exocytosis.
Also less desirable... | C06 |
2,965 | 8,654 | Severe hypertension after liver transplantation in alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency.
Five children with alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency and terminal liver disease received liver grafts; all five became hypertensive and four developed hypertensive encephalopathy.
There was evidence of renal disease preoperatively and ren... | C06 |
2,966 | 621 | Inhibition of cell mediated cytotoxicity by sulphasalazine: effect of in vivo treatment with 5-aminosalicylic acid and sulphasalazine on in vitro natural killer cell activity.
Decreased cell mediated cytotoxicity occurs frequently in inflammatory bowel disease, particularly in patients with active disease.
It is not ... | C06 |
2,967 | 6,343 | Oral dissolution therapy for cholelithiasis: mix and match.
The authors conducted a prospective, randomized trial of chenodeoxycholic and ursodeoxycholic acid versus ursodeoxycholic acid alone in patients with cholelithiasis to determine their efficacy for dissolution of gallstones.
One hundred and twenty patients wi... | C06 |
2,968 | 9,717 | Incidence of large oesophageal varices in patients with cirrhosis: application to prophylaxis of first bleeding.
Because several studies have suggested that beta blockers are effective in the prophylaxis of first variceal bleeding in cirrhosis, screening for oesophageal varices might be appropriate.
We prospectively ... | C06 |
2,969 | 7,167 | Sexually transmitted diseases of the colon, rectum, and anus. The challenge of the nineties.
During the past two decades, an explosive growth in both the prevalence and types of sexually transmitted diseases has occurred.
Up to 55 percent of homosexual men with anorectal complaints have gonorrhea; 80 percent of the p... | C06 |
2,970 | 2,906 | Management of gastroenteritis.
Childhood gastroenteritis remains a common reason for admission to British paediatric units, although the severity of the disease appears to be diminishing in recent years.
We studied 215 infants and children with gastroenteritis admitted consecutively to four paediatric units in South ... | C06 |
2,971 | 436 | Gastrointestinal tuberculosis. Report of four cases.
Gastrointestinal tuberculosis is a rare disease in the United States.
Correct identification is often delayed because it is not considered early on in the differential diagnosis.
Four patients with gastrointestinal tuberculosis and the symptoms, diagnosis, complic... | C06 |
2,972 | 8,018 | Injection or heat probe for bleeding ulcer.
A prospective randomized trial was performed to compare the efficacy of endoscopic epinephrine injection and heat probe treatment in actively bleeding peptic ulcers.
Emergency endoscopy in 1758 patients over an 18-month period identified 132 patients with active ulcer bleed... | C06 |
2,973 | 5,634 | An epidemic outbreak of cryptosporidiosis: a prospective community study from Guinea Bissau.
In the first year of a prospective community study of childhood diarrhea conducted in a semiurban area in the capital of Guinea Bissau, Cryptosporidium sp.
was found in 73 (6.0%) of 1216 episodes of diarrhea.
The parasite wa... | C06 |
2,974 | 580 | Hemodynamic events in a prospective randomized trial of propranolol versus placebo in the prevention of a first variceal hemorrhage.
In a double-blind randomized trial, the hemodynamic events following the administration of propranolol (n = 51) or a placebo (n = 51) were prospectively studied in cirrhotic patients wit... | C06 |
2,975 | 3,996 | Host response to mycobacterial infection in the alcoholic rat.
Animals, chronically treated with alcohol, were inoculated with mycobacteria (bacillus Calmette-Guerin, 10.2 x 10(6) organisms) into the spleen to produce a granulomatous hepatitis.
Before infection, chronic alcohol ingestion was associated with a depress... | C06 |
2,976 | 5,341 | Coccidioidomycosis during human immunodeficiency virus infection. A review of 77 patients.
Through a retrospective review, we identified 77 previously unreported cases of coccidioidomycosis during HIV infection.
Patients were classified into 1 of 6 categories based on their primary clinical presentation: 20 had focal... | C06 |
2,977 | 3,375 | Toxicity of high-dose cytosine arabinoside in the treatment of advanced childhood tumors resistant to conventional therapy. A Pediatric Oncology Group study.
Experience with high-dose cytosine arabinoside (HDAC) in pediatric solid tumors is limited.
Sixteen children with solid tumors resistant to conventional therapi... | C06 |
2,978 | 7,459 | Extracorporeal cholecystolithotripsy without oral chemolitholysis.
One hundred thirty-six patients completed extracorporeal biliary lithotripsy (EBL) for symptomatic cholecystolithiasis.
Sonographic evidence of complete clearance of all stone fragments was the only criterion for treatment success, which occurred in 3... | C06 |
2,979 | 3,399 | Effectiveness of periodic checkup by ultrasonography for the early diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma.
Periodic checkup by ultrasonography was conducted on patients with chronic liver diseases for early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma.
In 19 months, a total of 2004 examinations were performed on a total of 6... | C06 |
2,980 | 6,743 | Intra-abdominal abscesses in Crohn's disease.
We reviewed 22 patients who had intra-abdominal abscesses secondary to Crohn's disease.
A total of 29 abscesses were discovered.
These included superficial and deep intraperitoneal as well as pelvic and retroperitoneal abscesses.
Diagnosis was aided by ultrasound and co... | C06 |
2,981 | 376 | The Exeter Dysphagia Assessment Technique.
The Exeter Dysphagia Assessment Technique (EDAT) uses noninvasive equipment to record, simultaneously, "feeding respiratory patterns," the time drink entered the mouth, and associated swallow sounds during feeding.
The easily portable equipment enabled patients' swallowing a... | C06 |
2,982 | 9,716 | Role of upper gastrointestinal investigations in a screening study for colorectal neoplasia.
Should patients with positive faecal occult blood screening tests who are free of colorectal neoplasia undergo upper gastrointestinal investigation? Altogether 16,985 faecal occult blood tests were completed in a group of 18,8... | C06 |
2,983 | 4,011 | Omeprazole in the management of intractable esophageal ulceration following injection sclerotherapy.
Transient esophageal ulceration is a common finding after sclerotherapy of varices.
A small proportion of these ulcers become chronic and resistant to conventional therapy.
Such chronic ulcers have been associated wi... | C06 |
2,984 | 3,604 | Acute deterioration of renal function associated with enteric hyperoxaluria.
Enteric hyperoxaluria due to malabsorption syndromes has been well documented to cause renal calculi and chronic tubulointerstitial renal damage.
Rarely, in the setting of intestinal bypass operations for morbid obesity, enteric hyperoxaluri... | C06 |
2,985 | 579 | Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of somatostatin for variceal bleeding. Emergency control and prevention of early variceal rebleeding.
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of somatostatin was conducted among 120 patients admitted for bleeding esophageal varices (59 placebo, 61 somatos... | C06 |
2,986 | 6,803 | Polyneuropathy, ophthalmoplegia, leukoencephalopathy, and intestinal pseudo-obstruction: POLIP syndrome.
We describe 5 individuals (from three separate families) with a progressive neurological disorder characterized by sensorimotor peripheral polyneuropathy, cranial neuropathies (external ophthalmoplegia, deafness), ... | C06 |
2,987 | 2,517 | Association of Helicobacter pylori infection with dyspeptic symptoms in patients undergoing gastroduodenoscopy.
PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia and ulcer disease as well as in a control population undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography... | C06 |
2,988 | 8,016 | Light microscopic diagnosis of human microsporidiosis and variable response to octreotide.
Microsporida are protozoan parasites that have recently been identified as a cause of human disease in immunocompromised patients.
Because of their small size, they have been recognized primarily by electron microscopy.
This h... | C06 |
2,989 | 5,337 | A chronic granulomatous syndrome of unknown origin.
A small clinically distinct group of patients with widespread tissue granulomata are described.
The principal presenting symptoms are malaise, fever, and weight loss, although a wide variety of complaints are documented.
Pulmonary involvement is uncommon.
The gran... | C06 |
2,990 | 560 | Analysis of 24-hour esophageal pressure and pH data in unselected patients with noncardiac chest pain.
Fourty-four unselected patients with noncardiac chest pain were studied using conventional manometry with additional edrophonium provocation and 24-hour ambulatory esophageal pH and pressure recording with a system d... | C06 |
2,991 | 6,078 | Gastric outlet obstruction caused by traumatic pseudoaneurysm of superior mesenteric artery.
Traumatic pseudoaneurysms of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) are extremely rare.
We describe two cases of posttraumatic proximal SMA pseudoaneurysms with symptoms of gastric outlet obstruction.
Repair was accomplished b... | C06 |
2,992 | 5,276 | Binding to human jejunum of serum IgA antibody from children with coeliac disease.
Jejunal histology and the presence of serum IgA antibodies (JAB) binding to human jejunum in vitro were studied in 139 children with severe malabsorptive symptoms.
Among 33 children with confirmed coeliac disease (ESPGAN criteria), 13 ... | C06 |
2,993 | 8,461 | Stenosis of the sphincter of Oddi.
"Stenosing papillitis" is a descriptive term for an anatomic deformity of the papilla of Vater that is characterized by narrowing of the lower end of the bile duct and the proximal end of the duct of Wirsung.
The defect is secondary to inflammation and fibrosis from the chronic pass... | C06 |
2,994 | 2,925 | Ileal pouch-anal anastomosis. Reoperation for pouch-related complications.
The aim was to assess the value of reoperative surgery for pouch-related complications after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) for chronic ulcerative colitis and familial adenomatous polyposis.
Between January 1981 and August 1989, 114 of 98... | C06 |
2,995 | 634 | Evaluation of the magnitude of gastro-oesophageal reflux in Barrett's oesophagus.
A manometric study to determine the role of gastro-oesophageal reflux in Barrett's oesophagus was performed on 20 patients with Barrett's oesophagus and 53 patients with reflux oesophagitis without Barrett's oesophagus (25 with mild oeso... | C06 |
2,996 | 2,680 | Esophageal motor disorder in alcoholics: result of alcoholism or withdrawal?
Both acute and chronic ethanol consumption may cause esophageal dysmotility.
In order to systematically evaluate the effect of ethanol on esophageal motility, we studied esophageal motility in 13 healthy subjects before and following acute i... | C06 |
2,997 | 834 | Serum pepsinogen I and gastrin concentrations in children positive for Helicobacter pylori.
Serum pepsinogen I, serum gastrin concentration, and inflammatory scores were measured in a population of 71 children undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for investigation of upper abdominal pain.
Forty four were initi... | C06 |
2,998 | 7,504 | Emergency portosystemic shunt in patients with variceal bleeding.
Thirty-five patients for whom emergency sclerotherapy or conservative treatment, or both, failed to arrest variceal bleeding, or who had early rebleeding and required emergency portosystemic shunts (EPSS) were studied.
EPSS permanently controlled the v... | C06 |
2,999 | 391 | Resolution of the adult respiratory distress syndrome following colectomy and liver transplantation.
A 32-year-old woman with liver failure from end-stage cirrhosis and ulcerative colitis developed septicemia and severe ARDS.
Subtotal colectomy and a successful liver transplantation resulted in complete resolution of... | C06 |
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