(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.
Nausea
Definition:
(n.) Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.
Example Sentences:
(1) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
(2) Most survivors reported a range of problems that they attributed to having had cancer: 35%, proven or perceived infertility; 24%, sexual problems; 31%, health and life insurance problems; 26%, a negative socioeconomic effect; and 51%, conditioned nausea, associated with visual or olfactory reminders of chemotherapy.
(3) Among the major symptoms were gastrointestinal disorders such as subjective and objective anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
(4) A 68-year-old male was hospitalized because of headache, nausea, and disturbance of consciousness.
(5) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
(6) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
(7) Mean run time and total ST time were faster with CE (by 1.4 and 1.2 min) although not significantly different (P less than 0.06 and P less than 0.10) from P. Subjects reported no significant difference in nausea, fullness, or stomach upset with CE compared to P. General physiological responses were similar for each drink during 2 h of multi-modal exercise in the heat; however, blood glucose, carbohydrate utilization, and exercise intensity at the end of a ST may be increased with CE fluid replacement.
(8) Other toxicity was mild and included nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, mucositis, hepatic dysfunction, and cardiac arrhythmias.
(9) The time to first episode of moderate to severe nausea was significantly longer in the granisetron group (P = 0.03).
(10) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
(11) Adverse effects included nausea, light-headedness, dyskinesias, and hallucinations, all of which abated after the Sinemet dose was reduced.
(12) Significantly more slow acetylators stopped treatment because of nausea or vomiting, or both, but serious toxicity was not confined to either group.
(13) Postoperative nausea and vomiting have been associated with the use of intravenous narcotics, and nitrous oxide may worsen the emetic effects of narcotics.
(14) Side-effects (pruritus, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness) were also noted.
(15) Fourteen of 15 patients had a reduction in nausea and vomiting on THC as compared to placebo.
(16) Nausea, generally mild and of short duration, increased from start (30%) to end of radiotherapy (54%).
(17) A bolus of 0.1 mg.kg-1 followed by a continuous infusion of 1 mg.kg-1.hr-1 was effective in both prevention and treatment of nausea and vomiting.
(18) Significant toxicities included drug-induced hepatitis along with moderate nausea and vomiting.
(19) No subject reported side effects of oxitropium, as compared to three subjects reporting nausea, vomiting and tremors after theophylline.
(20) Nausea and heartburn occurred in 3 cases only and were controlled by reducing the dosage.