(1) A prospective survey of acute upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage in the major government hospital of Kenya was done using fibre-optic esophagogastroduodenoscopy.
(2) To examine this possibility, 62 tissue biopsies from 21 patients were obtained during esophagogastroduodenoscopy for gastroduodenal ulcer disease and from one operative specimen during the procedure for perforation of a gastric ulcer.
(3) Each underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy with multiple gastric biopsies for both H. pylori and histologic assessment, and 24-hr antral pH monitoring.
(4) Fifteen white women who received cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and 5-fluorouracil (N = 8) or cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, and 5-fluorouracil (N = 7) chemotherapy underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy and esophageal biopsy a mean 31.1 months (median, 11 months) after completion of full-course chemotherapy.
(5) To study levels of neutrophil chemotactic activity in human gastric secretions, these secretions were collected via the endoscope during elective esophagogastroduodenoscopy.
(6) Computed tomography and esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed intussuscepted jejunum through a gastrojejunostomy that required emergency operative reduction.
(7) We prospectively evaluated the role of fiberoptic esophagogastroduodenoscopy in the management of 81 patients with corrosive ingestion.
(8) Metastatic tumors to the upper gastrointestinal tract were identified by esophagogastroduodenoscopy in 14 patients.
(9) The esophagogastroduodenoscopy has now an essential role in the evaluation of gastrointestinal tract injury, as a guide to the therapy and as a prognostic criterion.
(10) The presence of gastrointestinal hemorrhages is an absolute indication for emergency esophagogastroduodenoscopy which appeared helpful in visualization of the source of hemorrhage in 60 out of the 64 patients (93.7%).
(11) Over a 3-month period, 36 procedures (Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, 25; colonoscopy, 7; flexible sigmoidoscopy, 4) were performed in soldiers both in the garrison and in combat.
(12) This is the first multisite report of esophagogastroduodenoscopies (EGDs) performed by family physicians.
(13) This prospective study evaluated the incidence and severity of arterial oxygen desaturation during esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and assessed clinical factors in relation to arterial oxygen desaturation.
(14) The impact of endoscope diameter and the presence of systemic sedation on the cardiopulmonary risk of esophagogastroduodenoscopy was investigated.
(15) The incidence of electrocardiographic changes during esophagogastroduodenoscopy correlated with patient tolerance (p less than 0.001) and the use of the smaller endoscope (p less than 0.05).
(16) drug abuser and 1 female patient with M. Willebrand-Jürgens) Candida esophagitis was diagnosed by esophagogastroduodenoscopy.
(17) However, after 1-2 years, all three patients progressed histologically to cirrhosis on follow-up liver biopsy, and all had esophageal variceal bleeding documented by esophagogastroduodenoscopy.
(18) We present our experience studying 672 patients examined by esophagogastroduodenoscopy after referral to clinical because of upper gastrointestinal symptoms.
(19) The paper reports a series of 236 patients who underwent emergency esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGDS) (within 48 hours of hospitalisation) due to hemorrhage of the upper digestive tract.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.
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(1) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(2) Estimates of potential for gastrointestinal side effects using the rat enteropooling assay and in vivo monkey effects indicate that diarrhea will be substantially reduced with retention of uterine stimulating potency.
(3) However, it has been suggested that vasoactive gastrointestinal peptides are involved in the etiology of postprandial BP reduction.
(4) A good understanding of upper gastrointestinal physiology is required to properly understand the pathophysiological events in various diseases or after operations on the upper gastrointestinal tract.
(5) Magnetic polyethyleneimine (PEI) microcapsules have been developed for trapping electrophilic intermediates in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
(6) Among the major symptoms were gastrointestinal disorders such as subjective and objective anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
(7) We therefore conclude that the hyperphagia of chronic exercise in humans may be linked with significant gastrointestinal adaptations.
(8) Weight of all gastrointestinal sections except the cecum in VMH-lesioned rats significantly increased.
(9) Haematological and blood biochemical changes in the sheep, as well as fecundity of gastrointestinal nematodes, suggested the hosts were immunosuppressed.
(10) An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with multiple biopsies was performed in 19 children suspected of Crohn disease (CD) who had also undergone X-ray investigations and colonoscopy with multiple biopsies.
(11) In all 4 cases, their reactivity outside the gastrointestinal tract is mainly confined to tracheal epithelium.
(12) Results indicate that nystatin is distributed heterogeneously in the gastrointestinal tract.
(13) The differential results obtained in the present series of experiments with vagotomy and NaCl-induced short-term and long-term aversion learning suggest that the vagal system plays a decisive role in tasks requiring the rapid detection of an aversive substance in the gastrointestinal tract (short-term tasks).
(14) The radiological patterns of presentation of the gastrointestinal lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma are described, this being the most frequent location of the disease after the skin and lymph nodes.
(15) Highly buffered acetylsalicylate was used to treat diarrhoea and other gastrointestinal side-effects of radiotherapy in 28 women who were receiving treatment for uterine cancer.
(16) In the immunosuppressed, gastrointestinal histoplasmosis must be considered, even in a patient from a nonendemic area, who presents with lesions appearing like carcinoma or inflammatory bowel disease.
(17) There is no specific therapy for this disease, but it is important to distinguish the cardiac and gastrointestinal symptoms of this disease from those of other treatable causes.
(18) The clinical spectrum of IgA deficiency varies from good health to respiratory, gastrointestinal, autoimmune and malignant disorders.
(19) Other possible adverse effects--such as gastrointestinal disorders, orthostatic hypotension, levodopa-induced psychosis, sleep disturbances or parasomnias, or drug interactions--also require carefully monitored individual treatment.
(20) Three foreign bodies were successfully removed from the upper gastrointestinal tract with a fiberoptic endoscope.
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