(1) Pain relieved by antacids, age above 40 years, previous peptic ulcer disease, male sex, symptoms provoked by berries, and night pain relieved by antacids and food were found to predict organic dyspepsia with a sensitivity and specificity of approximately 70%, when applied on the observed material.
(2) Antibody to cytomegalovirus was found in 83% of duodenal ulcer, 85% of gastric ulcer and 75% of non-ulcer dyspepsia patients; differences were not significant.
(3) Peptic ulcers were identified in 14 patients, mostly those with new dyspepsia, during the study period.
(4) A follow-up study of erosive prepyloric changes (EPC) was undertaken in 60 patients who originally presented with non-ulcer dyspepsia and EPC grade 2 or 3.
(5) Biopsy samples were taken from the gastric mucosa of 209 patients endoscoped for dyspepsia symptoms.
(6) Bacteriological studies on gallbladder bile from 39 patients suggested that infection within the gallbladder may be a factor in the causation of flatulent dyspepsia.
(7) To be termed chronic, dyspepsia should have been present for three months or longer.
(8) In order to exclude physician bias in history taking, 18 patients (9 female) diagnosed as non-ulcer dyspepsia, after endoscopy and gallbladder ultrasonography, underwent computer interrogation using the Glasgow Diagnostic System for Dyspepsia (GLADYS).
(9) Gastric biopsy specimens from 109 patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia were retrospectively examined.
(10) Four patients had severe dyspeptic symptoms and four severe dyspepsia plus dumping.
(11) 4 cases of drug-induced side effects were reported: dizziness and mild dyspepsia.
(12) We also assessed observer variation among endoscopists prospectively in 38 patients investigated for dyspepsia after operation for peptic ulcer.
(13) The purpose of our study was to carry out a thorough gastroenterologic investigation of all patients consulting their general practitioner and reporting dyspepsia during 1 full year, from a population within a defined geographic area.
(14) Select patients with dyspepsia receiving a combination of reassurance and empiric antacid therapy do as well as patients whose initial management strategy includes upper gastrointestinal radiography, at a substantially lower cost.
(15) How much the esophagus contributes to the clinical symptomatology of dyspepsia awaits further elucidation.
(16) A conception of ++non-ulcerative dyspepsia is suggested.
(17) Chronic idiopathic gastric stasis can be responsible for unexplained dyspepsia.
(18) 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 (ERCP) for suspected pancreatic or biliary disease.
(19) Thirty-eight patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia served as controls.
(20) At follow-up 19-35 years later, 296 of the patients could be traced, and 284 replied to a questionnaire concerning ulcer dyspepsia.
Heartburn
Definition:
(n.) An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nausea and heartburn occurred in 3 cases only and were controlled by reducing the dosage.
(2) A 62-year-old man with severe heartburn and persistent hiccups despite numerous diagnostic tests and therapeutic drug trials presented to our clinic.
(3) We speculate that hormone-related impairment of distal oesophageal clearance mechanisms may have a crucial bearing on whether heartburn develops in those individuals at greatest risk.
(4) Heartburn was induced by a meal consisting of chili, black coffee, and a spicy tomato drink mix.
(5) Heartburn was the most common symptom, more frequent in females than in males (p less than 0.01).
(6) Primary symptoms include dysphagia, odynophagia, heartburn and central chest pain.
(7) Symptoms of heartburn, regurgitation, and dysphagia were absent or minimal in most patients.
(8) The occurrence of heartburn did not correlate with the extent of reflux in the pH study.
(9) However, onions significantly increased all measures in heartburn subjects, compared with the no-onion condition, and compared with normals under the onion condition.
(10) Heartburn and epigastric pain, monitored every other week, were significantly relieved by both treatments, but to a significantly greater extent (70% vs 20% on average, p less than 0.01) and significantly faster (p less than 0.01) in the presence of triletide.
(11) 90 patients living more than 3 months complained of the following: heartburn, 18 (20%); reflux, 12 (13.3%); retrosternal pain, 3 (3.3%); stenotic sensation, 23 (25.6%); diarrhea, 10 (11.1%); abdominal pain, 14 (15.6%); and dumping syndrome, 6 (6.7%).
(12) Only ranitidine significantly reduced heartburn frequency and severity.
(13) 1) Symptom relief: Cisapride, usually at a dose of 10 mg t.i.d., was superior to placebo and metoclopramide in relief of daytime and night-time heartburn and regurgitation.
(14) Although heartburn, thought to indicate reflux of gastric contents into the oesophagus, occurs frequently in pregnant women during the last trimester, its aetiology is not clear.
(15) No patient experienced symptoms while swallowing water but one complained of heartburn and one developed symptomatic oesophageal 'spasm' during eating.
(16) Six subjects had mild subjective side effects after zindotrine (headache, dizziness, vertigo, flushing, and heartburn) compared with one report of lightheadedness after placebo.
(17) Logistic regression analysis showed increased risk of suffering heartburn with increasing gestational age (P < 0.0001), pre-pregnancy heartburn (P < 0.0001), parity (P < 0.0001) and inversely with maternal age (P < 0.05) but not with body mass index before pregnancy, race, or weight gain in pregnancy.
(18) Patients with gastroesophageal reflux often describe heartburn after "spicy meals."
(19) Heartburn, the most common presenting symptom, was abolished in 85.5% and epigastric pain in 84.6% of patients.
(20) Despite randomization of endoscopically normal patients, those treated with ranitidine had significantly more heartburn at baseline.