(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.
(n.) Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.
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(1) In a retrospective study of 610 patients the role of routine gastroscopy prior to cholecystectomy was investigated.
(2) The emptiness of the stomach was verified by gastroscopy.
(3) Conventional fiberoptic gastroscopy could be performed simultaneously with sonoendoscopic evaluation of the esophagus and gastric, extraesophageal, and extragastric areas.
(4) It can cause massive bleeding and is often missed at initial gastroscopy.
(5) Antral biopsies were obtained to detect Campylobacter pylori infection in 382 patients referred for gastroscopy.
(6) These states are not always going parallel with the macroscopic pictures revealed by gastroscopy, but there are some obvious congruences.
(7) Patients were submitted to gastroscopy at the start and end of treatment; only patients who presented a normal baseline gastroscopy were admitted to the trial.
(8) The findings from gastroscopy, upper gastrointestinal series and computed tomography were evaluated for their ability to define the anatomic site of the lesion, proximal and distal extent of gastric involvement, presence of a mass or ulceration and the sensitivity of diagnosis.
(9) Gastroscopy did not appear to increase plasma enzyme concentrations in six patients who were given intravenous premedication.
(10) In a series of five placebo-controlled double-blind studies in situations of stress-induced anxiety (gastroscopy, minor surgery, cardiac catheterization), the therapeutic efficacy of alpidem was evident in 53% of the patients and significantly (P less than 0.001) superior to that of placebo (30%).
(11) In order to exemplify the use of effect measures and confidence intervals in epidemiology, it is assumed that a group of patients treated with antiflogistic drugs were compared by repeated gastroscopy with a control group.
(12) First gastroscopy was done and biopsies were taken.
(13) 69% of the women and 48% of the men had previously experienced gastroscopy or colonoscopy.
(14) An esophago-gastroscopy showed a second degree burn of both esophagus and stomach.
(15) We recently treated a 19-year-old man in the ED and in the departments of surgery and medicine who required a gastrotomy to remove a large amount of elemental iron inaccessible to removal by emesis, lavage, or gastroscopy.
(16) The distribution over time of biopsy specimens in this case series showed an increased use of gastroscopy for diagnosis in the population under study.
(17) Following gastroscopy, gastric juice was collected, and total gastric acidity was measured.
(18) At the start, 6 weeks following the start 6 and 12 months after the finishing of the treatment gastroscopy was performed.
(19) Small-intestinal biopsy specimens were examined for deposits of amyloid, and the presence of gastric retention was evaluated by gastroscopy.
(20) At the examination seven complications were registered in the gastroscopy record.
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